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?
  • Ben_on_Lemmy@lemmy.mlMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hello,

    I’m Ben and my profile page reminds me I’ve been on Lemmy since the early days back in 2019 (and I need external memory, because my internal one regularly fails, as Pieter explained… 😂).

    I figured back then OpenStreetMap deserved its discussion corner on Lemmy, so I went on. And there was activity but rather quiet with mainly news posts and no real discussion threads.

    Meanwhile, a lot happened to Lemmy, the Fediverse, and the outside, so we’re good for more activity on here, and that’s excellent news!

    I can’t really make the time to map a lot in the last years, but I keep myself interested in mapping and in the OSM ecosystem at large, so all things OpenStreetMap usually catch my interest and are open to discuss.

    As a mod, I still have to discover what the duty will really impose, but I’m positive we’ll make it a nice place all together. 🎉