Hi,
I think this is a great idea for community building.
BTW what about having similar functionality *during* editing? For
example showing a link to the OSM wiki page of the currently edited area?
Such pages often tell what to pay special attention to in a certain
area, but IMHO they would deserve more visits (which could be improved
by showing such links).
Johannes
Am 31.03.2018 um 14:25 schrieb Bryan Housel:
I’ve started building an index of OSM community resources here:
https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index
"Resources" can be links to forums, meetups, Slack groups, Facebook
groups, mailing lists, and so on. Anything that mappers, especially
beginners, might find interesting or helpful.
*Why?*
Currently when you save an edit in iD, you will see a screen prompting
you to share your edit on Facebook, Twitter, Google+. But we’d prefer
instead to use this screen to let the user know more about the community
around where they are editing.
See https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4815 for discussion and
some mockups.
While the initial use of this index will be primarily to support this iD
feature that will be released soon, I’d love to see other applications
that have a community focus use the index as well. For example, if you
are reviewing an edit in OSMCha, and you see something that looks like
vandalism or an undiscussed import and you want to ask someone in the
local community to take a look, this index could tell you how to reach
out to somebody local.
*What about { existing lists / the OSM wiki }?*
I did look at existing community lists, and there are several, but most
of those lists do not support adding a bounding polygon around a
community. Several of them do let you place a single pin where the
community is, but I was looking for something that would let me draw
complex bounding areas, and filter to only show communities active
around in the area where a user is editing.
We already have a successful project for sharing imagery sources that
editors can use (see https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index ) so I
decided to create something very similar.
*How can I help?*
Glad you asked!
1. Go to https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/ and watch or
star the project. ⭐️
2. Read the README and CONTRIBUTING documents. These contain info
about which files need to be added:
* Each resource needs a `.json` file to describe it, and
* a `.geojson` file to describe where the region where it is active.
(multiple resources can share a .geojson file)
3. Either add the files with a Pull Request, or open an issue for
somebody else to add the files.
Thanks!
Bryan
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