I believe it automates an email which is sent to the OpenStreetMap user's mailbox (and to their registered email address as part of the OSM inbox functionality)
I detected a collective "meh" in response to my previous email so I made a start on a fork of the repo, ready for a pull request when and if anyone expresses an opinion (if you aren't familiar with these terms, don't worry, it's not that important). The things that I'm not sure of: - We have to select a region by uploading a geojson file. As the containing chapter is "OpenStreetMap UK" the UK would seem an obvious region to select. However, there's already a Scotland region defined, and an Ireland region covering Northern Ireland. I'm not sure what the impact is of overlapping regions (multiple emails?). For the moment I created an "England" region by simplifying the England relation from OSM. I think the email we'd generate would be more appropriate for the area the OSM UK covers, ie the whole UK? Or at least England and Wales, as they aren't covered by a region yet. You can browse the existing regions in Github, here: https://github.com/milh0use/osm-welcome-tool/tree/2.x/assets/regions/europe and the England region I created here: https://github.com/milh0use/osm-welcome-tool/blob/milh0use/add_england_region/assets/regions/europe/england.geojson Github even has a nice geojson viewer built in, so you don't have to interpret a sequence of latlongs in your head! - We would need to agree the best text. I've created a draft based on the OpenStreetMap Ireland message, with some text copied and pasted from the OpenStreetMap UK website. You can see the text here: https://github.com/milh0use/osm-welcome-tool/blob/milh0use/add_england_region/templates/messages/england/en/default.md You can also see the email sent to users who create nodes/ways/relations in the ireland region here: https://github.com/milh0use/osm-welcome-tool/blob/milh0use/add_england_region/templates/messages/ireland/en/default.md I don't see a text for Scotland - maybe a default text is sent to regions without their own text? Let me know what you think? Steven On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 17:16, Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > Check out https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Welcome_tool for help using > the welcome tool. > > I basically review each changeset the user made and provide feedback as > needed, and then send the welcome message. When reviewing, just use the > pull done icon to select the changeset viewer (OSMCha, achavi, OSM History > Viewer or OSM Lab) you want to use. I've been using OSMCha, but the recent > update isn't as nice as the prior version, to which I've > notified the developer. The last step is to mark the user as welcomed. > When I do get a response, either from a changeset comment or a message, I > mark that the user has replied. > > Good luck with the tool > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM Keith Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I had a quick look at the Link. But exactly how does one use the Welcome >> Tool? Not much guidance here on that side of things 🤔 >> >> Keith >> >> On 15 Apr 2025, at 12:04, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Re: OSM-Welcome-Tool and OSM-GB (Clifford Snow) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > > -- > @osm_washington > www.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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