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?
  • SyJ@lemmy.mlM
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    1 year ago

    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!