So the result of all the discussion about a proposal to develop and deploy a bot which failed to get near to a consensus, let alone agreement is ........ to develop and deploy a bot. The discussion has ignored the basic problem of not having enough mappers on the ground collecting data - so we are back to having a quick technical fix, using other people's data, which threatens to perpetuate us as a closed group of geeks. Rather than write a bot could the technically adept do some analysis of user behaviour in the UK ( e.g users who were prolific and gave up mapping, by length of time ago they ceased mapping) so we can start targetting them with email contact to try and find out why they started, why they gave up, what they liked, what they didn't like, how we can encourage them to start again and so on. Also, we have an image of the week on the main map - why can't we have mapper of the week ( or month) for the UK to recognise great mapping endeavour - or indeed a whole host of "awards". Currently there's no way of recognising someone's efforts and I guess it can get pretty difficult to keep motivated if there's no active OSM social scene nearby. Let's start getting creative about solving the basic problem!
Regards Brian
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