2013/11/19 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> > > We could simply not list those people who have zero edits. Or we could > sort the list differently - but how? Currently it is sorted by distance; > should it be sorted by how long ago someone did their last edit? Or by > how prolific someone is? Or a combination of the two? Or a combination > of proximity+currency+productivity? > > Or maybe before we doctor with these details - perhaps we should first > determine what's the purpose of the list in the first place, and from > there then think about how to serve that purpose best? >
maybe we could have more than one list, and/or let the user decide about sorting. Sorting by distance seems a good way given that the amount of people displayed is limited (if you went by amounts of edits / changesyou won't get (with the current system), the most active mappers in your area, but only of those who happen to have indicated their homebase in your vicinity. I think there is space for at least 2 lists: one for the most prolific mappers, so you can find them and organize a meet up etc. and one for the people registring but never editing or one-time-editors. The latter is good for active mappers to offer help to newbies, potentially also in person (as they are close). Maybe the 0-edit-mappers could be filtered and only those who signed up in the last x months would be displayed, so that instead of those older ones you'll get more interesting entries in the list. On the other hand there are already third party tools like this http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc who solve both issues (besides the no-time-editors which obviously can't be found by third parties without secret service super powers) and hasn't a limit for the amount of displayed mappers. Generally I agree that the mappers nearby list is not so very useful as of today, it is mostly fillled with 0-edit-users. Cheers, Martin
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
