OpenStreetMap community

Hello,

I’m Ben and my profile page reminds me I’ve been on Lemmy since the early days back in 2019 (and I need external memory, because my internal one regularly fails, as Pieter explained… 😂).

I figured back then OpenStreetMap deserved its discussion corner on Lemmy, so I went on. And there was activity but rather quiet with mainly news posts and no real discussion threads.

Meanwhile, a lot happened to Lemmy, the Fediverse, and the outside, so we’re good for more activity on here, and that’s excellent news!

I can’t really make the time to map a lot in the last years, but I keep myself interested in mapping and in the OSM ecosystem at large, so all things OpenStreetMap usually catch my interest and are open to discuss.

As a mod, I still have to discover what the duty will really impose, but I’m positive we’ll make it a nice place all together. 🎉

Hello,

I just wanted to introduce myself as one of the moderation team, I am a photographer and make regular use of maps to explore locations before I visit them in person, I find comparing different mapping tools very useful rather than just relying on google. I will keep my OSM account private as I prefer not to share too much information online, but I have been using the system for many years and have spent time editing and mapping a number of areas. I have moderation experience from a few other sites, including reddit and here on lemmy, so hopefully I can help steer the ship and keep things in order!

Hey everyone, I applied to be part of the moderation team and this is my introduction :

I've been working as a system administrator for roughly a decade. I like to keep things tidy and well maintained, and I'm a big proponent of open source and open data. My current Lemmy account is fairly new, but that because I switched from a previous account that is 4 years old (see my Lemmy bio). I've also been a Reddit moderator on a sub of roughly 100k users before I mostly gave up on Reddit. Here's my OSM profile.

Contributing to OSM feels like to me as a great way to contribute to my local area by keeping things up to date, and by offering a good alternative to the commercial players like Google and Apple Maps.

If you need some help on how to update or publish some data on OSM feel free to ask, and we're always open to suggestion :)

Hello, glad to have this community here! I could certainly use it more than once.

Would love to be a moderator, having been an OpenStreetMap user and contributor for a while.

@pietervdvn thanks for the (new) mods.
I dont have time to be a mod. I have enough to do with mapping in osm 😀

What do you expect from the moderation team?

Not much, be chill and intervene where necessary.

What do you expect from !openstreetmap?

A middle ground between the community forum and twitter, I guess. Leave binding discussions, to the wiki and mailing lists (though if we want to share arguments here, nothings speaks against it). Any niche that allows for occasional deep talk next to showcases.

What should this place look like in about one year time?

A fair share of projects, while hopefully not the only type of content (maybe showoff threads become a necessity there)
Similarly I think projects with the data, such as renderings should have a place here, within reason. Both would probably profit from a flair system, but thats more a task for lemmy-dev than osm-lemmy-mods.
Questions and a culture that answers them in a respectful manner.
Discussion of OSM related news, such as WeeklyOSM.

Do you have any questions for us?

Long time redditor, first time lemmyng: coming from feddit, is it unusual that my abonnement is still shown as pending? Posts do appear in my feddit-feed.

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