Thanks for your answer, it encourages me in my opinion of the necessity of a forum.
As i joined the mailing list just a few days ago, i couldn’t find a way to answer to your older thread. Maybe someone can put my message there: As long as it is compatible with data privacy, i support the usage of ohm for your project (i also started to do a bit of one-place-study for my hometown by the way :) )! But otherwise in my opinion we should get an arrangement on some basic things first (e.g. tagging with ohm:-prefix?, discuss about time-slider, establish time-slider...) before we can talk about data that are not familiar with openstreetmap. So I think OHM is probably the right place for you in the long term (we can talk about everything, nothing is determined) but not yet – but that’s also just my opinion. 2016-04-09 11:41 GMT+02:00 Peter Cooper <[email protected]>: > I think I am the person who last started a thread on the OHM mailing list > (Feb 2016 - > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2016-February/000963.html) > prior to this latest conversation. I was very new to mapping then, wanting > to do historical mapping for a “one-place study”, and hoping to start a > conversation with people who knew what is possible etc. Nothing came of > that, so I assumed the OHM list (and project?) was dormant. I am not sure > if my impression then was valid, but that can be a danger if something on > the web is public but not used (possibly because the main conversations are > elsewhere). I was not aware of any other context OHM was being discussed. > > Personally (I am old!) there are quite a few technologies I will not use > for various reasons unless I absolutely have to (Facebook included). I > considered how to take my musings, researches and conversations about > mapping for one-place studies forward, and so set up a forum using SMF – > you can see it at mapping4ops.org. Unfortunately, now that spring is here > in the UK, I am not getting much time on mapping but I hope to get back to > it soon. > > I do not know how relevant it is to this conversation you are having but > my experience with a forum has been: > > - I do not have many contributions from others yet (but I have only > recently started publicising the forum at all) > - SMF was easy to set up technically (we have a small grant to help > us, but so far that has only been needed for the domain) > - I am still struggling to find the right Category/Board/Child Board > structure, as currently it is not as easy as I want to find your way around > - It has been invaluable for me to document my findings and thoughts > in a (sort of) structured way > - It is excellent for searching > - Even if not many contribute to the forum it will have been valuable > for me, and will be useful as a basis for documenting whatever approach we > eventually take > - I realise that I need to keep posting to the forum so that anyone > visiting realises that it is not dormant, but these posts need not be very > long > - As with many forums, unless there is controversy or people get > something really useful out of it, I am not expecting many to contribute > > This has been my two-pennyworth on Forums; but if anyone wants to comment > on the way in which OHM might be relevant to Mapping for One-Place Studies > I would be very grateful – either as a new thread on this mailing list, or > on the mapping4ops.org forum. > > Peter > > *From:* PauLL170 . <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, April 9, 2016 10:04 AM > *To:* Sam Wilson <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [OHM] We need a forum! > > I already created a facebook page ( > https://www.facebook.com/Open-Historical-Map-515547755294262/) and a > group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1513784935591521/). It's > nice-to-have, but like all other suggestions it is bound to a specific > institution. A forum is the most neutral and public platform in my opinion. > If i would be a able to install one i would have done it already. A new > permanent section in the openstreetmap-forum sounds good for me, too! But > in this case we are dependent on the beneficence of others when it comes to > the question if that would be okay. > > Beside my principles, the wikimedia-discourse could be a good platform, > indeed! > > P.S.: Don't get me wrong, i appreciate that way of communication here, but > it is not the optimum for getting in touch with (possible) new users, > discussing their ideas, answering questions etc. > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > >
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