Re: [OSM-talk] Please be gentle with newbies

2020-03-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Wikipedia has had a behavioural guideline like this since almost the beginning with the nickname WP:BITE: Please do not bite the newcomers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 7:25 AM john whelan, wrote: > These days I'm retired and

Re: [OSM-talk] Please be gentle with newbies

2020-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 4. Mar 2020, at 00:25, john whelan wrote: > > When you send a message to a mapper you don't know who they are. You are > representing OpenStreetMap when you send a message so please put your passion > to one side and be gentle with the poor things yes, in

[OSM-talk] Please be gentle with newbies

2020-03-03 Thread john whelan
These days I'm retired and use my old age pensioner bus pass to grab a free coffee. Often there are strings attached like a group of politicans or journalists etc. floating around. Today I got cornered by one who had been on the receiving end of a communication from a mapper saying they had made