Communities
While "communities" may refer to multiple things, here we are referring to a proposed feature to the OSM website (The Rails Port) to support groups of mappers in a local region or mappers with a similar interest (e.g. rails to trails). Primarily, but not limited to, this feature is to support small and local groups of mappers at the city level.
It will also be integrated with the OSM Community Index. It will also provide support for community membership, organizers, events, and event rsvp.
Formerly known as "microcosms".
Collaborators include Cliff Snow, Adam Hoyle, and Local Chapters and Communities Working Group.
Development
There was a video presentation about microcosms at State of the Map US 2019. It is hoped that a features like this could help with building local communities.
1.0
The plan for version "1.0" were the following features:
- communities
- create
- read
- update
- not delete
- links for communities
- reporting spammy communities
- membership
- join
- leave
- multiple organizers - step up, and step down
- events
- event organizers
- event attendance, RSVP
It was under active development on a the osm-microcosm github project, and an open github pull-request to solicit feedback.
Based on feedback from project leaders, this pull request was considered too large to review.
1.0 - "take two"
Brian decided to break it up into 4 stages based mostly on rails resources.
| stage | components | branch name | PR | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | community, 1 organizer, create, show, edit, spam control, community links - 47 files | communities-communities | #3717 | PR submitted, rebased from 106 commits to 10, all new code covered by tests, all tests passing |
| 2 | memberships, join, leave, multiple organizers - 28 files | communities-membership | #3742 | PR submitted, rebased from 50 to 5 commits, all new code covered by tests, all tests passing |
| 3 | events and event organizers, events page, events page for users - 27 files | communities-events | #3751 | PR submitted, rebased from 28 commits to 2 commits |
| 4 | event attendance, RSVP | communities-rsvps | #3756 | PR submitted, rebased 17 commits to 1 commit |
Each stage includes 100% coverage by automated tests.
Most of the comments for stage 1 are in this PR #3683.
2.0
Ideas for version "2.0":
- diary pages for members of a communities
- diary entries in the geographic area of a community
- gps traces for members of a community
- gps traces in the geographic area of a community
- community mode of being geographic or interest based
- your idea here!
Communities
Yes there's a lot of overlap with PR 3301 (https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3301) Brian thinks, with some finesse, we can merge the two ideas.
| Communities/CommunityIndex | Microcosms/Communities |
|---|---|
| Has all communities according to the OSM Community Index (https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index) Currently displaying just the Local Chapters. | Has just the communities that want to host some operations on openstreetmap.org. |
| no activites | membership, events, rsvps |
For reference here's the OSM Community Index map, a nice way to find your community, as long as it's geographically based.