Ha! I find the same, rarely get a reply, and when I do they rarely are keen to map beyond the one thing they corrected! There is a bit of a learning curve even for simple edits so I'm surprised when they only make a single edit.
The tech aspect is really easy - I'd be happy to do it, but know there are more techy people on this list who could equally do it. The main issues to decide are: - what modifications would we want to the default template? I imagine we'd want to include a link to the talk-gb mailing list, and the community forum, but I've seen references to other systems too whose name I can't even remember. Maybe we should list them in order of how active the participation is, and the tech barriers to joining. It would be good to link to OSMCal and list some of the in person meetups too. I think an elevator pitch about why people *should* consider contributing more would be good too. - what area to select for our custom welcome message. Unless there are very local specific communities, one for the whole of the UK might be okay, though I think someone has already set up Scotland as a custom region. On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, 10:41 John Rowbotham, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd love to see this but the tech plumbing behind the scenes would defeat > me. > > > > My method is much more analogue: I just check the history for the patch I > work in every few days and message a hello to new mappers. There aren't > many. It's rare I get a reply (maybe I need to bathe more often!) and > often the mapper seems to do one edit that's important to them and then go > dark. It's helpful to know if someone is likely to be active on a street or > area I've got data to add to. And, I hope...nice and polite too! > > > > John. > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, April 14th 2025, 09:06 > Subject: [Talk-GB] OSM-Welcome-Tool and OSM-GB > > Hi All, > > I discovered the OSM-Welcome-Tool ( > https://github.com/osmbe/osm-welcome-tool) in the most recent WeeklyOSM > newsletter. I was wondering if anyone in OSM GB had considered setting up a > GB/UK/regional welcome message? I have an OSMCha watch on my local area in > West London and have been occasionally manually emailing new contributors > offering help and advice, but this seems like a great way to give localised > advice with very little work to set up ("set it and forget it") > I did a quick search of the talk-gb archive and only saw a reference in > passing. > > Steven > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > >
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