Hi all!

Welcome to the OSM-community on Lemmy. With this post, we’d like to introduce us, tell us what you expect from this place and what it should/might become.

BTW: we are still open to add more moderators! Make an introduction post here, mentioning why you want to moderate and showing some of your mapping work. (If you don’t want to share your OSM-username, you can also PM that to one of the mods)

So, I’m @pietervdvn (https://osm.org/user/Pieter Vander Vennet ; he/him), I’m the main dev of https://mapcomplete.osm.be . I’m involved with OSM most of the time and quite happy that there is momentum to move away from Reddit to an open-source, federated platform. ;) Personally, I already have a lot on my plate so I do not have enough team to moderate this place, so I’d like to get a team here quickly and start this place so that I can retire here.

https://lemmy.ml/u/Ben_on_Lemmy was the original founder of this community - but lost interest as nobody joined a few years back. But the tides have turned! One thorough search for the password of his account later and he’s back!

At last, https://lemmy.ml/u/SyJ just joined the moderation team as well - even though I don’t know a whole lot about them.

So:

  • Do you have any questions for us?
  • What do you expect from the moderation team?
  • What do you expect from !openstreetmap?
  • What should this place look like in about one year time?
  • m-p{3}MAEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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 :)