Closed mikelmaron closed 6 years ago
@woodpeck addressed most of your comments. take a look and see if we're in a better place.
Remaining is work on the Who uses OpenStreetMap
page, and I do like the idea of setting expectations for local chapters, even if implicitly. Could imagine helpful to point a prospective local chapter there.
Going to close here, remaining items covered by other tickets.
Frederik emailed with feedback. Placing this here. Will group into actionable tickets next.
Start page
In my eyes, this page is not for individuals who would like to know about OSM or start contributing, it is for organisations who have some bigger plan. It should be made clear that what you are looking at here is not the "main OpenStreetMap info page", because otherwise we'll hear tons of demands what else needs to be on there.
Sub pages
"Who is OpenStreetMap" :
[x] "Everyone who uses OpenStreetMap in some way (is) part of the community" - violent disagreement here. The community are those who make OpenStreetMap, not those who (only) use OSM in some way. You can certainly use OSM intensively and thus - by way of feedback or introducing others to OSM - become one of the makers, but certainly not "everyone who uses OSM" is part of the community. If we wanted to introduce such inflationary use of the term "community" we'd have to start talking of the "mapper community" versus the "user community".
[x] Contributors: "Many of these are volunteers" -> "The overwhelming majority of these are volunteers"
[x] "Local and Regional Communities" - highlight of Africa and Asia is misleading. the US have been organizing their own conference for much longer.
"Why use OpenStretMap" :
[x] Global Reach - "although there is no standardization" - this can go; while tags are not standardized, the unified schema we have means we're more standardized than if you were to try and mix Open Data from Australia and Chile. A detailed discussion on why tagging can be different in different regions would lead too far here.
[x] "Local Knowledge" - The result is a map made by local experts (not "made up of")
"How to give back"
[x] needs link to something that explains they cannot just import their shit.
[x] "What other ways can we contribute" - should not say contact advisory board.
"What is the history of OSM"
"What is the OSM Foundation"
[x] I would like to have a clear statement about "support not control", for example open the page with: "OpenStreetMap is not a closely governed or managed project; grassroots activities are the core of the movement, and individuals participating in OpenStreetMap enjoy great freedom. The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports OpenStreetMap and provides the necessary orgnaizationial backbone, without aiming to control the project or steer it in any particular direction."
[x] Also, AB is "gold and above" (or silver?)
Tell me about OSMF Working Groups"
"Who uses OpenStreetMap"
"What's new with OpenStreetMap?"
"How can we give money to OpenStreetMap?"
[x] "OSM currently runs an extremely lean operation.", let's drop the "currently", it sounds as if we wanted to change.
[x] "Donations" - missing a "The...Foundation"
[x] "Local Chapters" - better link
"How Good is OSM data"
"Organized Editing"
"We're planning a humanitarian campaign"
Idea of adding a section on our expectations of local chapters