Re: [Talk-us] Communication Working Group Proposal
This is great. Here are some concrete ideas where comms work for OSM.US could be *much better*: - Collect great stories of the OSM space and bring them on the OSM us blog: interviews with interesting community members, highlight data problem, highlight a beautiful spot on the map - Build bigger comms campaigns: OSM in education, OSM in government, OSM in businesses. Series of blog posts, reaching - Press work: getting the word out to all the big and small geo interested media channels out there has been a challenge - Community outreach work: similar to press - how can we notify related communities of interesting OSM events and news? - Write an awesome **newsletter** every other month with top stories from the OSM space (we have 400+ members of OSM US as recipients, we could build up a new newsletter just for updates) - Write a manual for how to run a mapping party (sounds a bit odd for CWG maybe, but I see most mapping parties falling short on comms, but doing great otherwise. Simple things like where to advertise, take pictures, blog what you did...) Anyone with energy to push on comms is welcome. We have a coordination repo on Github for comms. If you're interested in joining it say so and I'll add you. Alex On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > The US Chapter of OSM does not have a Communication Working Group. It like > to see if there is interest in starting up a group to service the interests > of the US Chapter with the goal of increasing the visibility of OSM within > the US. I'd particularly like to hear from people with communication > experience, not necessarily just with OSM. > > Having a CWG would also benefit us by helping to grow the mapper > community. The more people hear about OSM, I think the more mappers we will > gain. For example, I try to email via OSM every new editor in our Meetup > area. I don't know how much this has helped, but we now have over 300 > members in our Meetup group. Unfortunately we only reach the segment of the > population that has already found us. We need to reach a wider audience > than those that stumbled on OSM. It is especially hard to reach women and > minorities. That is where the CWG to make more people aware of OSM. > > If you are interested and have experience with communications, or just > interested in helping, I'd like to hear from you. > > Clifford > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > ___ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: > The editor visits a site which accesses the JOSM remote >> control protocol. They fix up the TIGER date and indicate "Yes, I'm >> done" or "Needs more work", and after a couple of Yes votes, it gets >> taken out of rotation. >> > Sounds similar to the HOT OSM Tasking Manager? > Yeah, that's just setting up a HOT tasking manager right? Except the HOT tasking manager will probably choke on one half hour tasks for all of US :) Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/lxbarth.647bc246/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibHhiYXJ0aCIsImEiOiJFVXdYcUlvIn0.bbaHTEWlnAwGgyVwJngMdQ#5/39.724/-99.360 It's using the same data you'll get if you use the "New & Misaligned TIGER Roads" layer in iD and JOSM, so all of the map above is actionable. At Mapbox we're working on focusing better our work better going after the higher order road networks first. Happy to share once we have results here. I don't have an ETA for this work yet. Also relevant: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/34290 Alex ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US
What do people think about how to properly retag place=hamlet in US urban areas? My colleague Eliane rendered out a map of all hamlets in urban areas in the US: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/samely/diary/34541 I just posted how we could fix this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/samely/diary/34541#comment29931 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Communication Working Group Proposal
The US Chapter of OSM does not have a Communication Working Group. It like to see if there is interest in starting up a group to service the interests of the US Chapter with the goal of increasing the visibility of OSM within the US. I'd particularly like to hear from people with communication experience, not necessarily just with OSM. Having a CWG would also benefit us by helping to grow the mapper community. The more people hear about OSM, I think the more mappers we will gain. For example, I try to email via OSM every new editor in our Meetup area. I don't know how much this has helped, but we now have over 300 members in our Meetup group. Unfortunately we only reach the segment of the population that has already found us. We need to reach a wider audience than those that stumbled on OSM. It is especially hard to reach women and minorities. That is where the CWG to make more people aware of OSM. If you are interested and have experience with communications, or just interested in helping, I'd like to hear from you. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
