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 @simon @amapanda @Melaskia @IvanSanchez @luis_in_brief Yeah I came to a similar conclusion. Not dismissing drive-by contributors from OMaps and SC — they are essential because some map is better than no map. But I really don't know how to find highly engaged contributors. How to find people that look at the map and think, oh, okay, this might be the thing to which I will devote every day of the rest of my life. All I can do is make tools to ease and speed up our work, so we focus on fun bits. 3 comments
@simon @amapanda @Melaskia @IvanSanchez @luis_in_brief When OSM is mentioned, it's always boring stuff like "open license", "tech enthusiasts", "used by major corporations", "everyone can register" blah blah. Not the real things like you could go into a forest or a city, experience it from new sides, learn a lot and share this knowledge with others via mapping with your phone or camera or pen and paper. It makes you smarter and healthier and doesn't require you to learn Python or whatever.  |
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@simon @amapanda @Melaskia @IvanSanchez @luis_in_brief One obvious way I can think of is publicity. As I mentioned on the strategy thread (https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/suggest-topics-to-be-discussed-at-osmf-board-strategy-meeting/111742/3 ), nobody knows about OpenStreetMap, and I see people on Mastodon discovering the joy of mapping every day. That's partly because media is eager to write about GMaps' spending millions, but not about how mapping has become accessible and fun and fulfilling twenty years ago.
@simon @amapanda @Melaskia @IvanSanchez @luis_in_brief One obvious way I can think of is publicity. As I mentioned on the strategy thread (https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/suggest-topics-to-be-discussed-at-osmf-board-strategy-meeting/111742/3 ), nobody knows about OpenStreetMap, and I see people on Mastodon discovering the joy of mapping every day. That's partly because media is eager to write about GMaps' spending millions, but not about how mapping has become accessible and fun and fulfilling...