Hi all, Matthias Meißer has made it easier to find a local OSM group. The German OSM community has had a map of local groups for quite a while. Matthias has extended that tool to work on a global scale. Here is how it works.
1) Local groups add a local group template to their wiki page. This should be a place wiki page for that area. Fill in the details on the template. 2) The local user group bot collects the template data from the wiki once a day or so. 3) User groups appear on the map with link information to their authoritative source. This works if you are organizing your local group on the OSM wiki, on Facebook or Meetup or elsewhere[1], but allows everybody to go to one source to find all local groups. That's good. But it only works if you have added a template for your local group. So go add a template for your group! ;-) The German map with all of the German local groups to envy, is here. http://www.openstreetmap.de/ The template information is here. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:User_group The new global OSM group map is here. http://ikaria.informatik.uni-rostock.de/mm337/osm/usergroups/ And a minimal page example using the local group template plus the place template, is here. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Waterloo_region [1] These external links are not yet displayed, but that bug has been reported and is being fixed Real Soon Now. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us