週刊OSM 483

11 Replies to “週刊OSM 483”

1. Please correct Shay Strong listing. Shay Strong is a woman. See https://www.linkedin.com/in/shay-strong/

2. You don’t tell us where and how to vote on the changes to tagging. That’s pretty basic. I would bet that most readers have no idea how to vote. So much for inclusions!

   1. The word “proposal” is a link to the actual proposal. At the bottom of that page you find a voting section (with instructions).

      FYI, here is the wiki page on the tag proposal process: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process

3. This news short needs more explanation “[1] Pascal Neis added some “leaderboards” to his OSM stats. Exactly 19 users contributed and mapped every single day to OSM last year, as reported in “Activity”. It is also worthwhile to have a look at the other reports: Map changes, Discussions, Traces and Notes.”
   For someone who contributes as much to OSM as Pascal does, you should have given some background for those of us who don’t follow his stats. What stats does he keep? What do you mean by “leaderboards.” What is “Activity”? One of his categories? Why is there no link to his pages so we can look at his work? You need to spell out the details in these reports. Most readers do not follow this stuff every day.

4. “Heather Leson points to a survey concerning people in FLO (Free/Libre/Open) communities.” What is the name of the survey? Who is conducting it? What is the purpose? Can anyone participate? What does it have to do with OSM?
   C’mon guys! Most high school newspapers can do a better job than this?

5. “Riley Champine, graphics editor at National Geographic, tweeted a link to slides of his presentation at NAICS 2019 on Mapping Refugees with Open Data. A bonus is the link to a Google Spreadsheet of a range of Overpass queries he used.”
   So, what’s the link to his slides or to his Twitter page? Of the link to the Google spreadsheet?

   1. The word “tweeted” is a link to his tweet. From there you find all the links you need. I see no reason to repeat such information in the Weekly OSM. I’m used to a Weekly OSM containing only headlines. The rest of the information can be found on the linked webpage.

      For me, it would be a bad thing that the texts would be longer and take more time to go over. If I am interested in a topic I will click a link. No need for Weekly OSM to give an executive summary. A headline is sufficient for me.

6. Dear Charlotte,

   We are always interested in improving our reporting.

   The basic idea at weeklyOSM is that the reader opens the links and then continues there.
   I hope that this is also the case in the cases mentioned by you.

   Please consider what we do, we all do it on a voluntary basis in our spare time. You pick out 3 or 4 messages that you think should be reported in more detail. Can you imagine that this is simply not possible for about 40 messages that we produce weekly? Just for information – the proofreading of an issue usually takes 90 minutes!

   We would like to invite you to use our guest mode and then – as you wish – report more about the respective links.

   If you want to do that, just go here: https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/, login with your OSM account – collect a link and write your report. It will then appear at least in the English edition. I can’t guarantee that it will be translated into the other languages.

   cheers

   Manfred

   1. Manfred,
      You mention links in stories. I found no links in the stories I commented on. I tried by clicking on the headline. Nothing. Then I clicked on the body of the story. Nothing.
      So, how does one get to the links that you mention?

      1. Charlotte,

         assuming you are reading the Weekly OSM on this page, all words that are not black are links to other webpages.

7. Here a short howto : http://weeklyosm.eu/this-news-should-be-in-weeklyosm