Local experts list

[matkoniecz]

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 #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.

[matkoniecz]

In my case it would be Poland.

[Adamant36]

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.

[ENT8R]

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

[bmillemathias]

I can be ping for france related question.

[kymckay]

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

[1ec5]

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.

[matkoniecz]

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

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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 #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.

[jeisenbe]

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.

[tas50]

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

[habi]

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 :)

[ianlopez1115]

Willing to help out with Philippine-related queries

[irhamdz]

i will help with indonesia :)

[RaiSaugat]

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

[plaza223]

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

[bhousel]

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!

[obahareth]

Hey 😄, I can help with Saudi Arabia.

[sullivankevint]

I can help with Spain 🇪🇸

[thibaultmol]

I can help with Belgium 🇧🇪

[nighto]

I can help with Brazil 🇧🇷 and Portugal 🇵🇹

[yashodip]

I can help with India.

[omarnazih]

I can help with Egypt

[anoncloud-code]

I can help you with Germany :)

[shawnshahzad]

I can do Pakistan and USA

[yotamN]

I can help with Israel

[batistaleandro]

I can help with Brazil

[rickithadi]

I'm keen to help for singapore

[TheDynamicPunk]

Not a local, but can help you guys with things related to India

[hackingorilla95]

I can help with Romania

[Fizzie41]

You can put me down for Australia

[calmarti]

Sign me in if you need brand names from Spain.

[codeinabox]

I can help with Australia and the UK

[tommylung]

I can help with Hong Kong

[rahulkarda]

I can help with India

[twilight1794]

Hi, I can help with Mexico

[cmap99]

I can help with Ireland

[Scottie0001]

I can help with Australia

[mcliquid]

Might help with Austria, Germany and german/eastern parts of Switzerland

[unbeatable-101]

I can help with Canada

[Jikr33]

I could help with Ulaanbaatar, mongolia

[siiky]

I can help in Portugal too

[craigbossley]

I can help with Taiwan! (I live there; I can also read/write both Traditional Chinese and English)
台灣：我繁體中文、英文都OK

[DnaX]

I can help with Italy and Romania

[j13m126]

I can help with questions about Austria

[TagaSanPedroAko]

I can help with brands, operators and transit networks in the Philippines 🇵🇭 as well as Canada 🇨🇦 (particularly the Prairies). Sometimes into rest of SE Asia.

[mikini]

Available for anything related to Denmark (DK). Possibly also able to figure out a lot regarding Sweden (SE) and Norway (NO) as we have a lot of culture, language & business in common.

[Mannivu]

I can help with Italy

[11000matias]

I can help with Argentina, especially Buenos Aires

[mnalis]

I can help with Croatia

[sammyhawkrad]

Available for local knowledge about Ghana

[enockseth]

I can help with Ghana and Togo

[Fizzie41]

Has anybody, anywhere, ever been approached to help with this idea? If not, it's a bit of a waste of time having it! Thanks Graeme

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[mnalis]

Has anybody, anywhere, ever been approached to help with this idea?

Yes @Fizzie41, at least one. See the initial text of the issue saying:

See for example #2584 where I summoned local expert with ( using @ syntax [...]

Now, how many people have been contacted (and whether that number significantly bigger than 1) is another question. (searching for "expert" in issues here gives few dozen issues, but I'm not going to examine them for the sake of gathering stats...)

[Guria]

Count me for Turkiye, Antalya

[gy-mate]

I can help with Hungary!