Hi All, Nope, I haven't heard anything from anyone about the Galaxy Zoo talk forum. It is certainly something we could look into though.
Best, -Kate On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Brad Neuhauser <[email protected]> wrote: > Kate previously brought up[1] the Galaxy Zoo Talk page[2] which is similar > to your idea, Erik. Not sure if there have been any follow up discussions? > > [1] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2014-September/006090.html > [2] http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000005 > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Sander Deryckere <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Asking help from other contributors on a specific object is usually done >> via a fixme=* tag. Tools like http://keepright.at allow you to browse >> those objects, so mappers can fix it when they know the answer. Polls on a >> specific object are never needed, as someone who goes to survey the object >> should always see what it is. >> >> When tracing for HOT though, and there is no local community able to do >> surveying, that fixme could remain unfixed a long time. >> >> For general questions, you can always use help.osm.org or forum.osm.org . >> >> On your actual question, I don't know the answer. >> Op 16-okt.-2014 16:00 schreef "Erik Walthinsen" <[email protected]>: >> >>> I'm working on some outlying parts of Port Loko on #699, and ran into >>> what looks like a path, but it also follows in what looks a lot like a >>> watershed and seems more defined (in places) than I would expect a path to >>> look. I'm honestly not sure which it is, or if it's both how they would >>> align. (way #308060638, currently a path) >>> >>> That got me thinking: what if HOT (or eventually OSM in general) had a >>> specialized forum where questions like this can be posted in reference to a >>> way# or node# specifically? Interested parties can browse or >>> standing-search the questions by tag (either OSM or topical), geofence, or >>> whatever. It acts like a forum topic for the most part, where discussion >>> can take place. Each can (as appropriate) have a poll with options being >>> full OSM tagsets, anybody who's posted can add a poll option, and anybody >>> who's already voted gets a notification when new options are added so they >>> can reconsider. >>> >>> Unfortunately I have neither the time nor expertise to implement such a >>> system, but I thought I'd toss the idea out if anybody wanted to run with >>> it. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- Kate Chapman Executive Director email: [email protected] U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834 Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370 *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team * *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* web <http://hot.openstreetmap.org> | twitter <http://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <http://facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/donate>
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