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matkoniecz commented 5 years ago

There is a very long list of brands and typical person will be familiar with only part of them. For example I can relatively easily to spot issues in brands that are active in Poland (or ask family), but I lack any local knowledge for example for Japanese brands.

I made a small script that can automatically detect issues in name-suggestion-index that are present for brands in a specific country.

At this moment I am looking through ones in Poland and post to this issue tracker about Russia with ping to person familiar with local situation.

See for example https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/issues/2584 where I summoned local expert with ( using @ syntax - see https://github.blog/2011-03-23-mention-somebody-they-re-notified/ )

If there are other people who would be happy to answer questions about local situation in their country (or countries) - please comment in this issue and list relevant countries.

matkoniecz commented 5 years ago

In my case it would be Poland.

Adamant36 commented 5 years ago

I'll take western America if you want. Although, its probably not to hard to find someone who can do it and stuff here is easy to search for anyway.

ENT8R commented 5 years ago

I am always open to answer questions about the situation in Germany 😄

bmillemathias commented 5 years ago

I can be ping for france related question.

kymckay commented 5 years ago

Not an expert, but have local knowledge of Scotland/UK

1ec5 commented 5 years ago

I’m a local expert on the U.S., which isn’t saying much. 😉 Aside from that, I’m not from Vietnam but I do speak Vietnamese, so I can help w/ research there as well.

matkoniecz commented 5 years ago

Thanks everybody! Some issues were already created (and fixed!) but there are still many regions where there some obvious local check waiting.

For example Switzerland, Ukraine, Indonesia, South Korea, South Korea, Mexico, Austria, Spain, Taiwan, Israel, Ivory Coast, Croatia and more have known issues requiring local knowledge/research{1} and I may create tickets once there is someone likely to answer them.

If anyone has local knowledge (in some cases local language may be sufficient) then you are welcomed here!

Just answering questions like at https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/issues/2648 is enough. PR itself may be done by someone else/ Though there is obviously nothing wrong with answering by making a PR! There is no shortage of things that may be improved.

{1} this list applies to problems reported by npm run build and localized within a single country.

jeisenbe commented 5 years ago

I can help with Indonesia and Singapore. I also have a little knowledge of Malaysia and Thailand, and I can speak Malay (a.k.a Malaysian, a.k.a Indonesian).

I can read Spanish, although my knowledge of Mexico, Central and South America is years out of date.

tas50 commented 5 years ago

I'm always around to answer questions about the west coast of the US

habi commented 5 years ago

I'm happy to try to help with stuff in Switzerland. The least I can do is forward the question to https://lists.openstreetmap.ch/mailman/listinfo/talk-ch :)

ianlopez1115 commented 5 years ago

Willing to help out with Philippine-related queries

irhamdz commented 5 years ago

i will help with indonesia :)

RaiSaugat commented 5 years ago

What do I have to do to help? I will help with Nepal, mainly Kathmandu if it's okay.

plaza223 commented 5 years ago

Hey there, Croatian here ready to help you so let me know how can I do it

bhousel commented 5 years ago

Thanks for all the offers to help!

The best way to contribute to this project is to browse through the index at https://nsi.guide and let us know about anything that looks wrong or is missing. Open issues or pull requests for branded businesses in your country. Sometimes we might have questions about how these brands are mapped in your part of the world, and your local perspectives are extremely helpful!