On 22 June 2010 17:44, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > On 22/06/10 17:35, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > >> You may have used questions and answers sites such as Stack Overflow >> (http://stackoverflow.com/) or its siblings - I like them a lot. There >> is a proposal for such a site dedicated to geographic information >> systems - and it would be a very nice place for Openstreetmap support. >> If you believe that this is a good idea, you may take a look at the >> proposal and maybe vote for it at http://j.mp/cqyYn0 > > I think it would be rather bad of us to try and take it over and use it > for our own ends like that. > > Some of us have already been talking about setting up an OSM specific > Q&A site like this which would be a much better fit than trying to use > something that is intended to be more general.
Especially with things like Shapado (http://shapado.com and http://gitorious.org/shapado) allowing you to set up our own site or be hosted on the main Shapado site (http://shapado.com/groups/new) I think that having a service which is more under our control is a good idea. Though this is perhaps more appropriate for OSM specific questions. Either way I think it would be a good idea to have a question/answer site for OSM questions -- as a complement to the osm-newbies list. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk