To me, one of the biggest things is about having all mappers act reasonably toward each other. We have some people that I'd describe as "lone wolf mappers". If they just add things, that's fine. But if they are retagging motorways as trunk, or deleting railroads, or otherwise being hostile, it's a huge turnoff for others to be part of the community. In contrast, there are a lot of people that talk with the other local mappers and it's far more friendly.
So I have two concrete suggestions: - in each state, have a state mailinglist, limited to people who actively map in the state, because they live there, or because they drive there to work. Explicitly discourage non-locals from joining. These lists would have more of a "people you might meet for a geobeer session someday" flavor, rather than people you've never met and won't. - have project leadership be much more aggressive about requiring people that make edits other than local additions to engage with commenter and be part of the community, or be banned. a few prolific editors that annoy many others are a net minus to the community, and I think that's pretty clear by now.
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