Re: [OSM-dev] osm.org groups

2019-05-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst 
Mikel Maron wrote:
> Personally, I think that https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index 
> has picked up a lot of what "groups" were intended to cover (a system for 
> defining location based ones anyway).

For me, the big value in groups-on-osm has always been that it would enable
ad hoc communities to form around interests and localities.

I'm honestly never going to get round to the hassle of setting up and
announcing a new community somewhere for UK cycle mapping or for "let's make
National Parks really well mapped this month" or for West Oxfordshire or for
whatever. But if OSM surfaces people already working in this space and their
edits, and provides a way for us to come together, bam, we have a
discoverable community after two clicks.

The second win is that we're all already here. Ask anyone and you'll get
differing views about lists/Facebook/Slack/Twitter/IRC/forums/Reddit/contd.
p94. It's not even consistent within particular interests or regions. But
all OSM mappers are, by definition, on osm.org.

Richard



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[OSM-dev] rel="me" | Re: osm.org groups

2019-05-22 Thread Rory McCann 

On 21/05/2019 21:19, Mikel Maron wrote:

What could be cool is a way to associate your user with communities
in the index


One approach for this is to allow uses to put (an arbitrary number of) 
rel="me" links on their OSM.org user page, which link to that user's 
profiles on other sites. Mastodon supports this and if you put a link on 
your mastodon profile to another page, it checks for rel=me (pointing 
back to the user's mastodon page), then you get a soothing green tick. 
Currently OSM.org strips that 'rel="me"' attribute from links in your 
profile page.


http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/usage/basics/#link-verification
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/8703



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