On May 31, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Matt Amos wrote:
>
>> in my opinion it's evil to contact users who haven't opted in to be
>> contacted. it's a valid point of view that they implicitly opted in,
>> but i don't think this is what most users intended when they added a
>> home loca
Matt Amos wrote:
> in my opinion it's evil to contact users who haven't opted in to be
> contacted. it's a valid point of view that they implicitly opted in,
> but i don't think this is what most users intended when they added a
> home location - it's certainly not what i intended.
I'm not sure i
Tom Hughes wrote:
> Emilie Laffray wrote:
>
>> I guess it all depends on whether the users have accepted to make public
>> their location. I am not sure whether the site allows to decide whether
>> to make public or not your location.
>
> Well first of all we don't require anybody to give their l
Matt Amos wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
>> On May 31, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Matt Amos wrote:
>>> if we want to keep the map on the users' pages showing the nearest
>>> other users to them, we might as well offer this data publicly. as
>>> russ said, it's one script and a
Tom Hughes schrieb:
> I would suggest that we (a) add a new "reveal my location" preference
> and then (b) add better features for browsing a map with users who have
> chosen to reveal their location marked
+1
A better tool would be very fine. As the 10 persons are bit very much -
especially in
On 31 May 2009, at 06:41, Russ Nelson wrote:
> The OSM webserver will tell you the ten people with home locations
> closest to your home location. It would be useful to be able to get
> more than that, for the purpose of inviting people to attend mapping
> parties so they can become more effectiv
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
> On May 31, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Matt Amos wrote:
>>
>> if we want to keep the map on the users' pages showing the nearest
>> other users to them, we might as well offer this data publicly. as
>> russ said, it's one script and a bunch of server loa
On May 31, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Matt Amos wrote:
>
> if we want to keep the map on the users' pages showing the nearest
> other users to them, we might as well offer this data publicly. as
> russ said, it's one script and a bunch of server load away from being
> public anyway.
Right. If we want to
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Joe Richards wrote:
>> How about a set of contact preferences? It would be easy to say "allow
>> other OSMers to contact me for mapping parties" etc. Perhaps for old users
>> this could be set to "on" by default, but we send them a little m
Russ Nelson wrote:
> The OSM webserver will tell you the ten people with home locations
> closest to your home location. It would be useful to be able to get
Ticket #1425 requested to return more than 10 nearby mappers too.
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1425
--
Lennard
Joe Richards wrote:
> How about a set of contact preferences? It would be easy to say "allow other
> OSMers to contact me for mapping parties" etc. Perhaps for old users this
> could be set to "on" by default, but we send them a little message so that
> they can change it straight away if the
Sunday, 31 May, 2009 9:26:02
Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations
Hello,
I guess it all depends on whether the users have accepted to make public
their location. I am not sure whether the site allows to decide whether
to make public or not your location.
Personally, whi
Emilie Laffray wrote:
> I guess it all depends on whether the users have accepted to make public
> their location. I am not sure whether the site allows to decide whether
> to make public or not your location.
Well first of all we don't require anybody to give their location at
all, though some
Russ Nelson wrote:
> So, being intolerant of boring, repetitive activities, I've written a
> program to find OSM users by their home location. You give it a
> lat,lon, and the radius in degrees of the circle in which you want to
> find people, and it repeatedly changes your home location un
Hello,
I guess it all depends on whether the users have accepted to make public
their location. I am not sure whether the site allows to decide whether
to make public or not your location.
Personally, while I understand your enthusiasm, I would find annoying to
receive a pre-formatted message aski
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 01:41:39AM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote:
> The OSM webserver will tell you the ten people with home locations
> closest to your home location. It would be useful to be able to get
> more than that, for the purpose of inviting people to attend mapping
> parties so they can
The OSM webserver will tell you the ten people with home locations
closest to your home location. It would be useful to be able to get
more than that, for the purpose of inviting people to attend mapping
parties so they can become more effective and enthusiastic OSM
contributors. If you m
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