Hi all, A few weeks ago I set up a survey to find out how people would want a potential UK/GB OpenStreetMap group to look like. Vincent kindly forwarded it to this list. The survey was focussed on what it should do and how it should structure decision making and financials. It did not ask whether the group should be GB or UK.
The results of that survey are now available at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2015-August/017637.html Given that you are currently looking to set up a more formal Ireland group, I felt it about time I subscribe to this list so that I can write directly to you :-) One of the areas we need to work out is whether we will be a UK or a GB group. I am told that the only reason that the mailing list is called talk-gb is that gb is the correct iso-3166 code (similarly in the early days of the internet some were pushing for .co.gb to align with this code). Quite frankly however I don't believe the naming of one mailing list should dictate our decision. Personally I see no problem in going UK and those in NI can then join either group (or better still, both). This would work the same as if a OSM-Scotland group was formalised - those members can then be part of both the OSM-Scotland and OSM-UK/GB group. That's just my view. What is important to me is that I hear your views on this. Whatever we end up doing I think it would be great if we could work together on this. We both are going to need to set up a constitution and then once established we can share work and even do joint events. Let me know your thoughts. Best wishes, Rob _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
