name-suggestion-index Local experts list

There is a very long list of brands and typical person will be familiar with only part of them. For example I can relatively easily to spot issues in brands that are active in Poland (or ask family), but I lack any local knowledge for example for Japanese brands.

I made a small script that can automatically detect issues in name-suggestion-index that are present for brands in a specific country.

At this moment I am looking through ones in Poland and post to this issue tracker about Russia with ping to person familiar with local situation.

See for example https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/issues/2584 where I summoned local expert with ( using @ syntax - see https://github.blog/2011-03-23-mention-somebody-they-re-notified/ )

If there are other people who would be happy to answer questions about local situation in their country (or countries) - please comment in this issue and list relevant countries.

Apr 25 '19 13:04 matkoniecz

In my case it would be Poland.

Apr 25 '19 13:04 matkoniecz

I'll take western America if you want. Although, its probably not to hard to find someone who can do it and stuff here is easy to search for anyway.

Apr 26 '19 06:04 Adamant36

I am always open to answer questions about the situation in Germany 😄

May 02 '19 15:05 ENT8R

I can be ping for france related question.

May 22 '19 09:05 bmillemathias

Not an expert, but have local knowledge of Scotland/UK

May 22 '19 11:05 kymckay

I’m a local expert on the U.S., which isn’t saying much. 😉 Aside from that, I’m not from Vietnam but I do speak Vietnamese, so I can help w/ research there as well.

May 22 '19 17:05 1ec5

Thanks everybody! Some issues were already created (and fixed!) but there are still many regions where there some obvious local check waiting.

For example Switzerland, Ukraine, Indonesia, South Korea, South Korea, Mexico, Austria, Spain, Taiwan, Israel, Ivory Coast, Croatia and more have known issues requiring local knowledge/research{1} and I may create tickets once there is someone likely to answer them.

If anyone has local knowledge (in some cases local language may be sufficient) then you are welcomed here!

Just answering questions like at https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/issues/2648 is enough. PR itself may be done by someone else/ Though there is obviously nothing wrong with answering by making a PR! There is no shortage of things that may be improved.

{1} this list applies to problems reported by npm run build and localized within a single country.

May 22 '19 17:05 matkoniecz

I can help with Indonesia and Singapore. I also have a little knowledge of Malaysia and Thailand, and I can speak Malay (a.k.a Malaysian, a.k.a Indonesian).

I can read Spanish, although my knowledge of Mexico, Central and South America is years out of date.

May 28 '19 12:05 jeisenbe

I'm always around to answer questions about the west coast of the US

Jun 30 '19 23:06 tas50

I'm happy to try to help with stuff in Switzerland. The least I can do is forward the question to https://lists.openstreetmap.ch/mailman/listinfo/talk-ch :)

Sep 29 '19 20:09 habi

Willing to help out with Philippine-related queries

Oct 05 '19 09:10 ianlopez1115

i will help with indonesia :)

Oct 07 '19 06:10 irhamdz

What do I have to do to help? I will help with Nepal, mainly Kathmandu if it's okay.

Oct 13 '19 16:10 RaiSaugat

Hey there, Croatian here ready to help you so let me know how can I do it

Oct 22 '19 15:10 plaza223

Thanks for all the offers to help!

The best way to contribute to this project is to browse through the index at https://nsi.guide and let us know about anything that looks wrong or is missing. Open issues or pull requests for branded businesses in your country. Sometimes we might have questions about how these brands are mapped in your part of the world, and your local perspectives are extremely helpful!