Well there was already significant work done on a "groups" feature that would have let users opt in to location-specific groups. But it never got a final push to completion. The work and discussion surrounding it are in a GitHub pull request:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/297 Toby On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Russ Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote: > Jonathan Schleuss writes: > > Is there a way to email multiple users at once? > > Yes and no. I created a hack to mail to geolocated OSM users, but I > feel disinclined to share that. Of course the board of directors can > authorize the sysadmins to send bulk email, but that happens only > rarely. > > I designed a system for communicating with users, but never > implemented it. Since it's opt-in, it's not spam. The idea is simple: > allow people to receive notices posted via the OSM user interface to a > particular lat/lon. They do so by adding one or more bounding boxes > for their areas of interest to their OSM profile. If the notice's > location falls in their bounding box, they get the notice in their OSM > Inbox. Not hard to implement if you know or want to learn > Ruby. Neither of those applies to me. > > -- > --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com > Crynwr supports open source software > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us