Re: [Talk-GB] Live OSM discussion in ~45 minutes (7.30pm UK time)

On 26 July 2017 at 18:45, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I've just learned that this week's Wikimedia Research Showcase, > streamed online TONIGHT at 7.30pm UK time, will focus on structured > data in OpenStreetMap. Details below. The manuscript on which this talk was based

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #366 2017-07-18-2017-07-24

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 366, 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/9299/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

Re: [Talk-GB] [Osmf-talk] Live OSM discussion in ~45 minutes (7.30pm UK time)

The thread was mainly about bad science and how it effects the perception of OSM in the public, including that it doesn't help in addressing real issues. Normally I would expect the moderators to suggest starting a new thread if you want to discuss the issues around diversity and how to address

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

Hi again, As far as I understand the wiki, my experience in Spanish bilingual situations and the common sense (as you can see in street signals) I'm going to change name=* to a neutral way as far as I could because is non sense to have only English name in name=* tag (and adding name:en=* if do

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

Hi Miguel, I tend to agree with you. However, we have never had a consensus on which approach to use. Perhaps because we have few mappers in Wales and even fewer who are Welsh speakers by preference. Certainly using an English road name in Welsh-speaking areas of Wales is likely to put off Welsh

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

Hello Phil, Thanks for your reply, great to know someone is editing or/checking editions around. Respect the issue about the street names if you follow wiki indications for multilingual names [1] you could read for Welsh that "It is better to use *name:en* for English names and *name:cy* for the

Re: [Talk-GB] [Osmf-talk] Live OSM discussion in ~45 minutes (7.30pm UK time)

Good to focus on the takeaways Mikel, thanks. Topics of research has come up too, and we could also be welcoming/helping academics more. I had already proposed a session for SotM, if anyone wants to join me.

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

Hi Miguel, welcome to Wales or should I say Croisi y Cymru. I am based in the Marches on the border so my mapping is regularly both sides of the border. I do keep an eye on mid Wales through whodidit as we are very sparse on mappers in that area. > >I'm looking for other contributors in

Re: [Talk-GB] [Osmf-talk] Live OSM discussion in ~45 minutes (7.30pm UK time)

On 27 July 2017 07:37:43 BST, Ilya Zverev wrote: >On SotM 2016 8 of 45 talks (18%) were given by women. Srravya C in her >talk at that SotM shows that only 7% posts in talk@ were posted by >women, and just around 2% — in the tagging@ mailing list. She gives a >few good

[Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

Hello, I'm Miguel Sevilla-Callejo, msevilla00 OSM user [1], an active user withing the Spanish OSM Community despite I do not have to many editions and I'm spending some weeks in the UK. I'm based on Aberystwyth, Wales and, as you can imagine I checked how our favourite spatial data base is going

Re: [Talk-GB] [Osmf-talk] Live OSM discussion in ~45 minutes (7.30pm UK time)

Hi, On 26.07.2017 23:58, Ilya Zverev wrote: > While I was dismissive of her arguments four years ago, now I see that > all of her points were valid, and are still valid. I think that it is possible for an insider of OpenStreetMap to look at Monica's work and see some valid points in there. But

Re: [Talk-GB] [Osmf-talk] Live OSM discussion in ~45 minutes (7.30pm UK time)

Am 27.07.2017 um 12:02 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > I do not have numbers for how many people in OSM are interested in which > facilities. If I had, that would be a great research subject, or at least a > topic for an interesting SotM presentation. > > This sub-thread, of course, is an extra

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Next meetings?

Did we have a list of proposed locations for remaining meetings this summer? I noted a couple of new user edits in the Kinver area which prompted me to have a closer look. Kinver and nearby Stourton, Cookley and Enville are all pretty much devoid of any detail currently and would make a good

Re: [Talk-GB] [Osmf-talk] Live OSM discussion in ~45 minutes (7.30pm UK time)

The Wikipedia article on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_sampling It would just seem to be far too easy for advocacy groups to hijack even a well intentioned selection, which is what I suspect we are seeing here. Instead of getting a diversity of viewpoints we are simply getting

Re: [Talk-GB] [Osmf-talk] Live OSM discussion in ~45 minutes (7.30pm UK time)

On SotM 2016 8 of 45 talks (18%) were given by women. Srravya C in her talk at that SotM shows that only 7% posts in talk@ were posted by women, and just around 2% — in the tagging@ mailing list. She gives a few good ideas about increasing the participation of women, by the way: