I'd agree with that, it was quite a while before I registered an account. Then I did do GIS for work, but was thinking there's probably a big difference between loading a couple of shape files and being a "GIS professional" who makes and manages a world map. Turns out there's not, more nudges to make baby steps would be good.
Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2020 4:06:52 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [OSM-talk] more engaging “about” page Looking at https://www.openstreetmap.org/about I thought it was not very engaging and we might want to make some small adjustments to make it more inviting for people to contribute. Specifically the paragraph: Community Driven OpenStreetMap's community is diverse, passionate, and growing every day. Our contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping disaster-affected areas, and many more. To learn more about the community, see the OpenStreetMap Blog<https://blog.openstreetmap.org/>, user diaries<https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary>, community blogs<https://blogs.openstreetmap.org/>, and the OSM Foundation<https://www.osmfoundation.org/> website. it points to the official blog, user diaries, community blogs and the osmf website. My suggestion would be to 1. add “people like you, e.g. ” before “enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, ...” and to 2. add “how to contribute” as link to “ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute>” right after “see” and before “the OpenStreetMap blog, user diaries.....” What do you think? Cheers Martin sent from a phone
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