OpenStreetMap United States

[clay_c (Clay Smalley)]

I figure during State of the Map US would be a good time to kick off discussion here among the OSM US community. Howdy y’all/yinz/youse/you guys!

Much of our current discussion is on the OSM US Slack and the talk-us@openstreetmap.org mailing list. I don’t see those disappearing anytime soon, though I think this forum will be a great place for us to collaborate internationally. After all, we’ve been doing a lot of work together domestically on highway classification and the OpenStreetMap Americana style. Certainly we’re not the only country with unclear highway classification guidelines and ornate highway shields.

[n76]

Thank you for getting a OSM USA topic/community started here!

[OpenBrian (Brian DeRocher)]

LOTS of good talks at State of the Map US with regard to highways, tagging, and the new Americana style. I’m sure videos will be posted soon for everyone to see.

[ElliottPlack]

Hello World! Happy to be here.

[stevea]

Waving hello to Discourse community from California, USA.

[nukeador (Rubén Martín)]

Hi everyone.

Note that there is now a process to request a new category over #site-feedback:new-category-requests

Cheers.

[mmd]

@OpenBrian

LOTS of good talks at State of the Map US with regard to highways, tagging, and the new Americana style. I’m sure videos will be posted soon for everyone to see.

A few videos are on YT now: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqjPa29lMiE1jqzEGQ0gBwRQL3D8j3gXW

[rimugu]

Email list has much more activity than this, but its good to have it.

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@clay_c

Much of our current discussion is on the OSM US Slack and the talk-us@openstreetmap.org mailing list.

There also used to be a U.S. forum with much less traffic, until the OSM Forum was archived in favor of this site.

I agree there should be a U.S. category here as a successor to the old forum for non-realtime discussion. This category would serve as a shared space for a community that’s currently split between the mailing list and Slack. Already, several community members who are active on the mailing list but don’t want to join Slack, or vice versa, have already contributed to discussions here.

The next step would be to formally request a category with some category moderators in mind:

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Creating a new request Request new categories for this forum by creating a new topic in this category (just click on create new topic). The same process is used to re-enable one of the read-only imported categories from the old forum. Please follow the new topic template answering all questions, you can use your local language if you are not comfortable with English. The current policy to request new categories is based on this proposal. The current policy to suggest and select moderators. …

[ezekielf (Zeke Farwell)]

Yes we should establish a United States category here. I can prepare the category request. Who will serve as moderators? I can volunteer if needed.

[clay_c (Clay Smalley)]

I volunteer to moderate as well.

@ezekielf I’m one step ahead of you—I have a category request typed up and ready, but we just need to figure out who else will moderate.

[iandees]

I’m happy to help moderate as well.

[stevea]

I don’t have bandwidth to moderate here, but I do see enthusiasm from many here with whom I have enjoyed wonderful OSM experiences and/or working relationships. My two thumbs up to each, any or all of them as moderators. Good to see things gearing up!

[Adamant1]

I was wondering if there was a category for the United States. I’m glad to see someone is getting it off the ground. It’s good for the United States to have at least some representation on the forums even if other platforms are more active right now. Who knows how it will be in the future