Hi Paul, I am hopeful that some of the users looking to fill their reusable water bottle might take the time to take pictures of fountains already showing up on the map. That is the limit of my expectations.
If a user wants to add a new fountain, we point them to our instruction page written in 7 languages which explain how to create an OpenStreetMap account and how to create or edit a fountain object in osm. This was done with the help from quite a few people: ... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Project/European_Water_Project I think I will add a copyright release message when taking the picture ... maybe that will help for wikimedia. Thanks for the suggestion ! Best regards, Stuart On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 20:33, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 18:54, European Water Project < > europeanwaterproj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I hope you are partially wrong and that we attract non-OSM contributors >> as well. But I am not sufficiently confident to bet against you :))) >> > > You seem to be hoping that people who use your app to find these places > will, > if they encounter such a place that isn't in your app, use your app to add > it. It's > possible. It would be unreasonable to expect casual users to create > OSM and Wikimedia accounts just to add a new object. > > The other possibility is that people will deliberately seek out such > objects > to add them to the app. At least some of them will be of the type who > could be encouraged to create OSM and Wikimedia accounts. But that's > a barrier to entry, so there won't be many people willing to do that. > > Assuming you have enough server space to hold uploaded images > then have your app note the details and store the image, and put the > POI into a queue to be processed by volunteers who are willing to create > an OSM account. I think a queue on your server for volunteers to > process is better than dropping notes all over the map. It's > certainly cleaner for mappers. And it means your volunteers don't have > to inspect every note to see if it's one they should deal with. > > You might be able to come up with a copyright release for images > uploaded to your app that would let your volunteers then put them > on Wikimedia under some sort of blanket approval, but I wouldn't > bet on it. You'd have to ask Wikimedia about that. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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