What are "types"

[bhousel]

Each resource has a "type" property..

{
    "type": "Feature",
    "properties": {
        "id": "OSM-US-Slack",
        "type": "slack",
        "country_code": "US",
        "name": "OpenStreetMap US Slack",
        "description": "Sign up at {url}",
        "url": "https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/"
    },
    "geometry": { 
        ...
    }

I left this a free-text property. But we might want to have a list of acceptable types.

[bhousel]

Followup on this, and this is related to how I will show these things in iD.

What if we say the "type" must correspond to one of the icons in the FontAwesome brands icon set? It seems to cover pretty much every kind of community I can think of.
https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery&s=brands

[althio]

Which icons would fit for forums and mailing lists?

[bhousel]

Which icons would fit for forums and mailing lists?

Good point @althio ... Maybe we should just define a list of accepted types to avoid any confusion. We can easily expand the list later.

As for the icons, there are about 1000 free (CC BY 4.0) icons to pick from (the brands are a subset): https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery&m=free

[bhousel]

The list of allowable types is:

            "enum": [
                "discourse",
                "facebook",
                "forum",
                "group",
                "irc",
                "mailinglist",
                "meetup",
                "reddit",
                "slack",
                "telegram",
                "twitter"
            ]

Let me know if we're missing anything

[joostschouppe]

The list of types has grown quite a bit. The map-filter @jbelien made (at https://community.osm.be/) makes this very visible. How about these two:

"osm" - a local OpenStreetMap page
"group" - A site for a local group with a url (such as a local OSM chapter page)

When I look at what's behind those two, they are basically the same. Everything under there could as well be "website". The only two exceptions, are "meetup groups organizing on the wiki" classified as a "group". I would propose changing those to "wiki", reclassify all others to "website".

I would also propose to add a new thing: lc-website. This would be for websites for organisations that are an officially recognized Local Chapter.

[bhousel]

"osm" - a local OpenStreetMap page
"group" - A site for a local group with a url (such as a local OSM chapter page)

When I look at what's behind those two, they are basically the same. Everything under there could as well be "website". The only two exceptions, are "meetup groups organizing on the wiki" classified as a "group". I would propose changing those to "wiki", reclassify all others to "website".

Good points.. I still think of "types" as mostly "what icon to pick".

We should definitely change the description for group to not suggest that it is a local OSM chapter page. I think of "groups" more things like Maptime, or Mappa Merica, or Map Kibera - things where it would be misleading and weird to show an OSM logo next to them.

I'm ok with adding a new type for officially recognized local chapter pages. We could have osm-lc and osm to differentiate between official and unofficial local OSM groups.

[bhousel]

@joostschouppe I did a few things!

• I updated the contributing guidelines to improve the descriptions of the types, and show icons too. It looks nice!
• I added a special osm-lc type and icon for official local chapters. The icon is like the OSM icon, but it has a star ⭐️
• I updated the groups and local chapters in this index, and added whatever other official local chapters I could find here

[jbelien]

Awesome!
Thanks a lot @bhousel ! I'll integrate this in https://community.osm.be/ in the next few days 🎉

[simonpoole]

@bhousel the actual list of local chapters is here https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters

[bhousel]

the actual list of local chapters is here https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters

ok, I just checked and thankfully it is the same list.
(Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom)