Matt Williams wrote: > 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.
Good point. I think you are right. I had not thought about that. > Especially with things like Shapado http://shapado.comand > 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. End-to-end community control is good, I agree. So much for Stack Overflow then. But I'm glad that the idea of an OSM Q&A site is being discussed - I believe that there is a strong unexpressed demand for that. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
