Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Weait
Thanks for providing a peek at the inside of MQ, Randy. :-) Minh, nice to know that 4S lead to a couple of mappers in your area. Are they continuing to map? Any indication that they are surveying, or are they restricting themselves to armchair mapping?

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-20 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Thanks for that Randy. Echoing your themes: the global home page, and especially the US home page, do seem to assume people will jump right into general purpose mapping. The underlying assumption seems to be 'if *they* only had known OSM exists, they'd become dedicated mappers'. I think there

[Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-19 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, Richard Fairhurst, posted an blog about attributing OSM this weekd. http://blog.systemed.net//post/7 Beyond attributing OSM, hopefully our large commercial users can take it a step further and provide a way of editing OSM from their user interface. For example, in August, Foursquare

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Richard Fairhurst, posted an blog about attributing OSM this weekd. http://blog.systemed.net//post/7 Beyond attributing OSM, hopefully our large commercial users can take it a step further and provide a

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-19 Thread Randy Meech
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Beyond attributing OSM, hopefully our large commercial users can take it a step further and provide a way of editing OSM from their user interface. I'm really interested in this topic, but it's tricky. Long ago

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-19 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 16:07 2014-01-19, Randy Meech wrote: Why not? Because if you make a venn diagram of users who want to use a local/mapping product and users who want to edit one *actively*, there's honestly not much overlap. Products need to do right by their users. We offered the ability to edit the map on

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-19 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, For Foursquare, I am interested in knowing if it has been rolled out everywhere, do they have any idea how much the edit button has been pressed, and if it has caused any support burden or other unexpected problems. As a baseline, hopefully adding the edit button does not harm... Of

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-19 Thread Randy Meech
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Of course the point can't be editing a map -- there has to be something to lure in your average user. I assert, that there are CL users that would be motivated for themselves at fixing issues on the map.