With diary post, you mean diaries on osm.org ? Or are you describing the differences between Projects and News ?
Along the same lines: is an interview with a mapper really news ? Or do we need a third type: "Blog posts" aka diaries or ... ? m. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Ben Abelshausen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marc, > > I think these are very nice things to put on the website! The only > difference I see with for example a diary post is that OSM.be also tries to > be a recruiting tool and that communication is a bit different. > > I would write short articles about a very specific activity we do, in this > case for example, I would shorten the article to an overview of what you do > and we can showcase how we (some of us) survey, to get people interested, > and use the diary to share specific technologies/ways of doing things with > the general OSM community. No problem linking to more details in the blog on > OSM.be > > Those are just my thoughts on what we should do on OSM.be vs all the other > communication channels we already have, feel free to comment! :-) > > Also: a series on what to map would be great but not sure how this would > work. I was also planning on writing about some of the talks I gave about > OSM last month, one of them was about mapping 'public space' and I used the > example of the statues in middelheim park! ;-) > > Met vriendelijke groeten, > Best regards, > > Ben Abelshausen > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Marc Gemis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hallo, >> >> yesterday evening I posted an article on how I prepare and make my >> surveys. You can find it on the osm.be website at >> http://www.osm.be/2017/04/21/en-post-survey.html . It's in English. >> Feel free to translate it in Dutch and French. >> >> I am wondering whether it would be interesting to write a series of >> articles on "what to map". I'm thinking about lesser known topics such >> as destinations, minor power lines, sluice gates, fire hydrants. Each >> article should give some information how you can document it during >> the surveys, how to add it in 1 or more editors, some maps or apps >> where you can see the result. >> >> What do think ? Do you want to read such articles ? Do you want to >> write such articles yourself ? Review stuff that I write before it >> goes online ? Translate them ? >> Have an idea for a topic ? >> >> Let's make the osm.be website more interesting. >> >> regards >> >> m. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
