add talk-pacific

[andrewharvey]

Community Resource Name

talk-pacific

What is it?

mailing list

URL link to the resource

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-pacific

Location

Peoples of the
Moana/Oceania/Pacific.

Description (optional)

example: "Join our group here: {url}"

Languages spoken (optional)

example: "en"

Points of contact (optional)

List of people who moderate or manage the community.
Each should include both a name and email:
example: "Ian Dees, [email protected]"

[andrewharvey]

@mapmakerdavid @ViolaineDo I think we should try to get talk-pacific included in the community index here, so it pops up for mappers making edits in the region, what do you think?. Any particular country codes and language codes to use?

[bhousel]

Thanks, I'd like to help get this resource added!

You can browse https://ideditor.codes/ to see what country and region codes we currently have "built-in" support for.
These include ISO 3166-1 2 or 3 letter country codes, UN M.49 numeric codes, and supported Wikidata QIDs.

For example, "Oceania", code 009 includes this:
https://ideditor.codes/?code=Q538

BUT - please don't feel that you're limited to using country and region codes.
The software can support any custom geojson area, so we could just draw a big polygon around everything you want included and use that as the "location" for talk-pacific.

[bhousel]

I added this resource today with a broad geojson that covers the Pacific and coastal areas, and the common indigenous languages too (see below). It will start showing up soon for mappers editing in the Pacific. I'm happy to revise it if you want..

Hoping everyone in the Pacific OSM community is safe and well following last week's eruption and tsunami near Tonga.
Let me know how and if we can support you!

{
  "id": "talk-pacific",
  "type": "mailinglist",
  "account": "talk-pacific",
  "locationSet": {"include": ["pacific.geojson"]},
  "languageCodes": ["en", "fr", "haw", "mi", "sm", "to", "ty"],
  "strings": {
    "description": "The regional OSM mailing list for and by the peoples of the Moana/Oceania/Pacific",
    "extendedDescription": "We would like this mailing list to support all peoples of the Pacific, in all of our diversity and aspirations, to share thoughts, questions, projects, and everything related to OpenStreetMap in our sea of islands."
  }
}

[andrewharvey]

I'd rather leave it to @mapmakerdavid and @ViolaineDo to make a call on the area, but I would assume because we already have dedicated mailing lists for AU, NZ, JP that those are excluded. I'd also move the border in from the Americas so coastal regions of the Americas don't fall within the area.

[ViolaineDo]

Hi, Sounds ok for the language part/description, and i would remove Australia and New zealand borders who have their own mailing lists. Thats list was made for Pacific islands, to have their own space. Which is the reason why we didn't name it oceania mailing list. Is thats enough informations ? Best regards Le 18 janvier 2022 12:02:15 GMT-10:00, Andrew Harvey ***@***.***> a écrit :

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I'd rather leave it to @mapmakerdavid and @ViolaineDo to make a call on the area, but I would assume because we already have dedicated mailing lists for AU, NZ, JP that those are excluded. I'd also move the border in from the Americas so coastal regions of the Americas don't fall within the area. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #498 (comment) You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[bhousel]

Thanks @ViolaineDo & @andrewharvey , I will adjust the borders a bit..
(looking at the map on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islander as a rough guide)