jaakkoh wrote: > Or maybe, just maybe, some of the blessed developers who > know Rails well enough could help make connecting with > other mappers easier/smoother/even_delightful
There's lots of stuff that can be done and I suspect OWL, Matt's "what edits are actually happening in a given area" engine, is the crucial backend on which we can build it. The real win for OSM social features will be in building up _real_ mapping communities. Find out who's mapping in your town, talk to them, co-ordinate survey trips, sort out visits to the pub (or cultural equivalent), and all that. The sort of thing that Germany and London are very good at, with accordingly excellent results, but that doesn't happen in many other places. It emphasises that OSM, at its best, is all about bringing your local knowledge to the map. Unfortunately... there are far too few "blessed developers" and they all have a to-do list as long as the Russian boundary relation. So this really isn't going to happen any time soon. Unless you - or other people reading this - can help us build this good stuff? Subscribe to the rails-dev mailing list, talk to people on IRC, whatever's easiest. Rails is not that hard really, especially if you just start with the little stuff. And we don't bite (well, we do, but in a friendly fashion). Come on in, the water's lovely. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Friends-tp7048266p7048535.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
