Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

2017-11-28 Thread Edward Betts
Thanks for the feedback. It's obvious I need to make two changes: - support other forums beyond the mailing lists hosted on http://lists.openstreetmap.org/ - return all the matches within the result hierarchy, not just the most specific, so searching for Glasgow should give talk-scotland and

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

2017-11-26 Thread Michał Brzozowski
Exactly. This is very important, as sometimes it's not obvious which contact channel is used by respective local communities. This could be integrated as a button into iD so that it's hard to miss for beginners. Michał On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:43 PM, ajt1...@gmail.com

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

2017-11-26 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 25/11/2017 19:18, joost schouppe wrote: That's really cool. What would it take to merge more sources in there? For example the main community e-mail address, their activities calendar, their riot/telegram/slack group? Maybe a structured wiki page could be the source? Firstly, it's a

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

2017-11-26 Thread Rebecca Firth
Hi, I can see this being really useful, thanks Edward! Echoing what Joost said, it would be great to be able to see more information on the community, and also possibly to see more than one result e.g. if I search a city, it could be useful to see the mailing list for that location plus the

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

2017-11-25 Thread joost schouppe
That's really cool. What would it take to merge more sources in there? For example the main community e-mail address, their activities calendar, their riot/telegram/slack group? Maybe a structured wiki page could be the source? 2017-11-25 17:48 GMT+01:00 Nelson A. de Oliveira :

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

2017-11-25 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Edward Betts wrote: > I've made a tool with an API for finding local OSM mailing lists. > > https://local.openstreetmap.directory/ Nice service! If possible, maybe it could display all the lists that could be possibly related with the place?

[OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

2017-11-25 Thread Edward Betts
I've made a tool with an API for finding local OSM mailing lists. https://local.openstreetmap.directory/ The web interface handles searching by place name or lat/lon, the API can be queried by place name, lat/lon and OSM object. This is a proof of concept, I threw it together to see if it