Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)
> I'm also interested in how others feel about Slack. Is it good for the > community or should we look elsewhere? Glad you asked! I think Slack has changed the way I work for the better. Here are some advantages.. * lower barrier to entry for less technical folks * great mobile experience * good for sharing files / screenshots * works well for both sync and async chat * emoji reactions, can be used to both cut down on noise comments but also mark things as read (like our welcome users feed) * integration with basically everything (GitHub, Stripe, RSS anything you want really) * easy to start focused public or private channels and pull a few people in to a discussion * ability to mute and set availability times * user profiles * decent search * everyone is on it I really can’t imagine going back to something else. I’d happily pay for it if they asked me to. Anyway, I felt it important to speak up because I’ve noticed a very common situation when asking for people’s opinion about something, the people who are happy will stay silent, and the few who have a problem will be the ones who respond. There are currently over 800 people on the OSM-US Slack, and over 3000 on the GIS Spatial Community Slack. I have no idea how many people are subscribed to the talk-us mailing list. I don’t think we should get rid of mailing lists. We should still copy things to the talk-us mailing that affect the entire US community. Just my thoughts Thanks, Bryan ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2018-06-07
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@ list, others can benefit. Downloads: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2018-06-07 Map to visualize what each file contains: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2018-06-07/kml/kml.html FAQ Why did you do this? I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact of doing a large join on Lambertus's server. I've also cut them in large longitude swaths that should fit conveniently on removable media. http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2018-06-07 Can or should I seed the torrents? Yes!! If you use the .torrent files, please seed. That web server is in the UK, and it helps to have some peers on this side of the Atlantic. Why is my map missing small rectangular areas? There have been some missing tiles from Lambertus's map (the red rectangles), I don't see any at the moment, so you may want to update if you had issues with the last set. Why can I not copy the large files to my new SD card? If you buy a new card (especially SDHC), some are FAT16 from the factory. I had to reformat it to let me create a >2GB file. Does your map cover Mexico/Canada? Yes!! I have, for the purposes of this map, annexed Ontario in to the USA. Some areas of North America that are close to the US also just happen to get pulled in to these maps. This might not happen forever, and if you would like your non-US area to get included, let me know. -- Dave ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] weeklyOSM #411 2018-05-29-2018-06-04
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 411, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/10415/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages where?: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/weeklyosm-is-currently-produced-in_56718#2/8.6/108.3 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)
On 2018-06-09 1:19 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Apart from the reasons you mentioned, having a record is also an important factor. Anything that has gone on on these mailing lists is practically archived forever and for all to see This is also a good reason to ask questions on something other than Slack, if someone else might have the same question. A question on help.osm.org, an issue tracker, stackexchange, mailing lists, forums or, something else publicly archived can be found in the future by someone who has a similar question in the future. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)
Hi, On 06/09/2018 04:31 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > I have objections to the use of Slack in particular, and to the use of > real-time communication tools in general (not just Slack but other tools > like IRC, HipChat, Rocket.Chat etc.). I think that while it would be ok for any of these to be used by a smaller group to actually do some work, the smaller group should come back to the mailing list for anything of importance. (The same applies to in-person meetings btw, for example if you were to try and get an import approved at a SotM conference or so.) For example, a process where someone pops up on the mailing list and says "I have this data but I don't know how to import, can someone help", and then a smaller group huddles together on Slack/IRC/in a pub to flesh out a proposal, which then goes back to the mailing list for approval or feedback, would be totally ok and likely more productive than going every step on the mailing list. But what you can't do of course is say "we discussed this on Slack and decided we want to do it that way, now be quiet you weren't there" when someone suggests an improvement on the list later. Apart from the reasons you mentioned, having a record is also an important factor. Anything that has gone on on these mailing lists is practically archived forever and for all to see[*] but when I'm told "we discussed this on Slack" I have no chance of checking if there was indeed a discussion or just one guy with a big mouth and two of his pals applauding ;) Bye Frederik [*] minus things like the EU data protection regulations forcing us to remove someone who wants to be forgotten - but they will live on in my personal email folder, har har. -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
