Similar message for different countries - how to post?

[JurgenG]

Hi,

I posted a message on the Portuguese community thread:

Municipal websites Portugal

Hi, for a side project, I had to look up official websites for as much cities as possible. I also looked up the cities for your country and am attaching the CSV file to this message. Using a script to upload the websites automated was too complex or out of my comfort zone. If someone else would be interested in enriching the metadata for these cities - feel free to do so. You can find the file for the processed countries (including yours) here: Here is the code I used: https://gitlab.com/j…

This is a European project I’m working on (outside of OSM), but essentially it’s something that needs to be parsed (or not) by local communities. I would like to post the same message in the other active countries where it is applicable (Hungary, Romania, Poland) and gradually also to the other countries that I parse.

What would be the best approach for this?

[Kovoschiz]

Maybe it should be considered a meta question for how to use Discourse 🐞 This forum issues and requests - OpenStreetMap Community Forum
I suppose you can only manually post this to every one of them. There’s no Europe, continent, or any subcategory. Basically the same as how old forums work.

[JurgenG]

Yes, I know… but when I tried to post the same message in a second category, I get a refusal because the message is too similar.

Could cheat a bit by rewording it every time, but that doesn’t make sense to me.

[mcliquid]

No discourse power user here, but I would create one single topic in the “General Talk” section.

You can try tagging the respective countries with hashtags, e.g. users: Albania
But I’m not sure what the effect of this is, but you could just try it out.

A thread for the whole topic would have a few advantages for me. You can consolidate communication about your code in one place. It’s true that specific questions about a country then mix the thread, but do you have to assume that there will be controversy? Some of the countries you listed are not even active here - see Albania. And if new countries are added, you can simply post an update.

Best Practice: PTNA: news for Public Transport Network Analysis

[grin (Peter Gervai)]

@Municipal websites Portugal

official websites for as much cities as possible

Sidenote: in Hungary, due to the official regulation of the .HU domain it is with extremely high probability that the <settlement name>.hu name is the official name of the settlement, if exists. (There are about five exceptions or so, mainly due to registrations before the rule.)

[JurgenG]

Thanks, that’s useful information!