Maybe the reason for the bad grammar of Twitter users is the 140 character
limit, this people drop out words or letters to make it fit.
Shaun
On 9 Jan 2013, at 16:21, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, I'll bite...
I think this would
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Joseph Reeves wrote:
Ok, I'll bite...
I think this would be missing our audience. If you're illiterate (a
group Twitter caters specifically to), what are the odds you're going to
be able to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to OSM?
How
It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to express an
intelligent thought in 140 characters or less.
You got that one expressed in 115 characters #JustSayin'
On 15 January 2013 14:36, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Joseph Reeves wrote:
Make the link go to http://twitter.com/openstreetmap then and DON'T FEED THE
TROLL!
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Paul Johnson wrote:
So pick social media that doesn't cater exclusively to a
crowd whose education stopped midway through Grade 2.
It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to
express an intelligent thought in 140 characters or less.
It's writing system just doesn't work
On 01/09/2013 01:37 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
I may be a grumpy old dinosaur but I don't see how diluting the
Openstreetmap brand into the bland broth of proprietary centralized
social services that plague the Internet nowadays will bring any
value...
Simple question then: you go to osm.org
On 08/01/2013 21:31, Rovastar wrote:
My idea is simple can someone add modern social media networks logos/links
to the home page.
As a member of the OSMF Communications Working Group (CWG), I have
perhaps the greatest level of involvement in the various OSM-branded
pages/accounts on various
On 09/01/2013 13:43, Paweł Paprota wrote:
OSM does have an
official Facebook account[1] and official Twitter account
...and an official Google+ page:
https://plus.google.com/+OpenStreetMap
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Jonathan Bennett jonobenn...@gmail.com writes:
On 08/01/2013 21:31, Rovastar wrote:
My idea is simple can someone add modern social media networks logos/links
to the home page.
As a member of the OSMF Communications Working Group (CWG), I have
perhaps the greatest level of involvement in
On 09/01/2013 13:57, Greg Troxel wrote:
Personally, I find it puzzling that open data (and open source) projects
are willing to (as projects) use services with bad data policies and bad
privacy policies. While I wouldn't advocate that OSMF take a position
in the culture battle against such
On 08.01.2013 22:31, Rovastar wrote:
Nearly every site now has twitter, facebook, google plus, youtube channel,
etc links. We have these social media outlets lets tell people about them.
[...]
I cannot see any harm in this it would take up very little screen real
estate and I think look a more
Hi,
This idea has been discussed in CWG, and at some point* a mock-up will
appear. It's not straightforward because we can't use the standard
network-supplied widgets -- they leak information back to those
networks, so are an unacceptable risk to mappers' privacy.
I'm glad to hear people
+1
I too would like OSM to become the goto site for maps and directions.
I work in a large office, and to walk down the office and not see google maps
on somebodys screen is rare.
I do try to promote OSM, or OSRM when asked a where is, how to get to question
and try to wean people of google.
Hi,
I share Tobias' and Jean-Marc's dislike of centralized and
proprietary social networks and I don't think we should offer free
advertising for them (even if that is commonplace nowadays).
Like Tobias said, many other things are commonplace (like contributing
to Google Map Maker and
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I think it is ok for us to post stuff to Twitter, and I think we should
make room for such news on our web page (many web sites have a widget that
shows the most recent twitter mentions).
I would dislike a follow us on
Ok, I'll bite...
I think this would be missing our audience. If you're illiterate (a group
Twitter caters specifically to), what are the odds you're going to be able
to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to OSM?
How do illiterate people use Twitter?
Do illiterate people have
On 09/01/2013 01:37, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
I may be a grumpy old dinosaur but I don't see how diluting the
Openstreetmap brand into the bland broth of proprietary centralized
social services that plague the Internet nowadays will bring any
value... But that's just my worthless opinion [..]
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On 09/01/13 15:18, Tobias Knerr wrote:
On 08.01.2013 22:31, Rovastar wrote:
Nearly every site now has twitter, facebook, google plus, youtube
channel, etc links. We have these social media outlets lets tell people
about them.
[...]
I
Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, I'll bite...
I think this would be missing our audience. If you're illiterate (a
group
Twitter caters specifically to), what are the odds you're going to be
able
to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to OSM?
How do
Twitter- and Facebook-user here, and I look forward to seeing links to
those sites on the OSM page. Perhaps a 'Share this map' button alongside
the Permalink/Sharelink links (it's basically an extension of the same
idea, but saves the effort of doing copy and paste).
Steve
On 09/01/2013
looking at some facts, there are:
- 13002 followers on twitter
- 4311 likes on facebook page (to be compared at the 200 000 on the google
maps page)
- ? suscribers on talk@
= on the 1 millions osm user, I'm quite sure (but have no facts) that a
lot of people have a facebook account but didn't know
Am 09.01.2013 um 15:18 schrieb Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de:
On 08.01.2013 22:31, Rovastar wrote:
Nearly every site now has twitter, facebook, google plus, youtube channel,
etc links. We have these social media outlets lets tell people about them.
[...]
In my opinion, the most
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote
Am 09.01.2013 um 15:18 schrieb Tobias Knerr lt;
osm@
gt;:
Of course that is an ideological point of view ... However, I would be
wary to brush
aside ideology completely...
I don't mind if people use their favourite social networks to advocate
OSM. However, a
+1 to JM's request for putting together a plan to gather data. Moral and
ethical questions aside, we don't know the value to OSM unless we test.
I believe larger sites do things like offer a different home page to
different users - e.g. one with these links, and then one without - in an
attempt
On 01/09/2013 08:49 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote:
+1 to JM's request for putting together a plan to gather data. Moral
and ethical questions aside, we don't know the value to OSM unless we
test.
Actually, moral and ethical problems must be defused preemptively -
especially within a project that upholds
+1 to JM's -1's to my +1 comments ; )
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote:
On 01/09/2013 08:49 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote:
+1 to JM's request for putting together a plan to gather data. Moral
and ethical questions aside, we don't know the value to OSM unless
Firstly, I didn't expect so much conversation on this. I must say I never
really though about the closed nature vs open source of OSM conflict.
And I am not a facebook user myself (I really dislike the walled garden idea
that is facebook) and only joined Twitter to see what it is about, I've not
On 10/01/2013 00:17, Rovastar wrote:
Firstly, I didn't expect so much conversation on this. I must say I never
really though about the closed nature vs open source of OSM conflict.
And I am not a facebook user myself (I really dislike the walled garden idea
that is facebook) and only joined
Hi,
On 10.01.2013 01:46, Steve Doerr wrote:
I'm really disturbed by the prevalent tone in this thread. What's
'ideology' got to do with OpenStreetMap? After 3+ years of contributing
to OSM, have I actually been supporting some crypto-socialist conspiracy
that opposes private-property rights,
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/01/2013 00:17, Rovastar wrote:
Just because I contribute to an 'open' database, does that mean I have to
oppose anything that is 'closed' or proprietary?7
That depends on what you think of social welfare
I joined the mailing list just to get involved in the OpenStreetMap Future
Look discussion and join in the fight but now it has turned into a love in.
:-) *hugs*
What about a easier more practical suggestion to improve OpenStreetMap.org!
My idea is simple can someone add modern social media
On 01/08/2013 10:31 PM, Rovastar wrote:
Nearly every site now has twitter, facebook, google plus, youtube channel,
etc links. We have these social media outlets lets tell people about them.
They could easily go under the Make a donation button as a 2x2 grid of
icons for the big 4 social
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