I've been having so-so success on contacting people in the US. I've sometimes just looked around on the License Change map across the US (and in a few places in Canada like Toronto since I lived there for a bit) and just contact the people I find that show up when I click on the names. I've even sometimes took a stab in the dark and used there OSM ID and e-mailed a corresponding GMail e-mail address (got lucky doing that once for a Pittsburgh editor). Sometimes I've been lucky to get the person to accept in less than an hour sometimes (once had a guy accept in less than 5 minutes after sending the PM!). I would say my ratio of getting people to accept is at about 30%, maybe as high as 35%, but it might drop if nobody in the recent batch of PM's I send out accept. BTW Toby, I hope you've been listing the people you've been contacting here so people don't contact the same people at the same time. (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL) - James > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 23:09:15 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Talk-us] Contacting non-responders with less than a month to go > > Well, this has been brought up before but with less than a month left > to go before the license change I thought it was worth talking about > again. > > Since December I have been steadily contacting mappers. I started out > covering Kansas and have had great success here. Since mid February, > myself and others have been working on contacting the non-responders > with the most edits in our respective countries, with some > coordination and help from Simon Poole. > > All told, I have attempted contact with about 90 people here in the > US. So far I have managed to get through to just over half and every > one of them has accepted the new terms. > > However... As great as that is, it's still barely a drop in the > bucket. My overall 50% contact rate has required a non-trivial amount > of effort involving google, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, youtube, etc > as well as a few (sometimes slightly awkward) telephone conversations. > "Hi, this is the Internet. I'm calling for your son." However I have > found that a good 25-30% of people respond after nothing but a > personal message through the OSM message system. Obviously this means > that their registered email address is still valid and they see the > notification email. This also means that they should have seen the > messages from OSMF a couple of months ago but people are lazy, > forgetful and have over-zealous spam filters. > > So everyone on this list, please take another look around your > city/state using the available tools[1] and just start sending > messages. You can easily spit out 10 messages in under an hour. > > I would suggest coming up with your own text that you feel comfortable > with. It doesn't have to be fancy. We're just trying to get eyeballs > on the target. I usually put something location specific in the > subject line to try and get their attention and let them know this > isn't an automatic email. Something like "Your map edits in <city>" > seems to work. > > For the body I say that I noticed that they were active in OSM a > couple of years ago and thank them for their contribution. Then I > point out that since they haven't been active, they may not be aware > of the upcoming license change which requires a response from all > users and that we need their permission to carry their edits forward > into the new license and ask them to log in to their account and > review the new terms. > > That's all you need. > > And as a bonus, some of them might start mapping again! Fewer than I > had hoped... but better than nothing. > > And finally, there are two non-responders here in the US that I > haven't been able to find much on and was wondering if anyone else > happens to know any details about them. They haven't been active since > before I created my account so I thought maybe some other long-time > users might know something that I don't. If anyone has any personal > information it would probably be best to send it directly to me and > not the list. Or I guess try to contact them yourself. The user names > are: > kyrbyboy with edits New Jersey > Sunny with edits in Seattle, Denver and Beijing. > > [1] > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe > (click on highlighted things to see user names of decliners/non-responders) > http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?layers=00B0 > (hold CTRL and draw a box to get a list of people in the area with > dirty objects) > http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/ > (to see where they have edited) > > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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