Hi,
On 05/07/2015 06:35 AM, Ineiev wrote:
There multiple collaborative mapping services. Each of them is a direct
rival to OpenStreetMap in terms of competing for contributors and map
editing contributions. OpenStreetMap is better than any other competitor
for one simple and very fundamental
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
There are quite a few collaborative mapping projects where people map
where they encounter which species of plants or animals in the wild.
(For example, a recent discussion on the German OSM forum was about a
software
I would remove such a page from the wiki.
It is more suitable as a publicity pamphlet.
But even in that case it needs some more structuring. The individual pros
and cons have to be juxtaposed. The summary statements are not correct in
all aspects and therefore open to criticism.
On 7 May 2015 at
On 7 May 2015 at 07:30, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote:
I would remove such a page from the wiki.
It is more suitable as a publicity pamphlet.
Any and all of our publicity pamphlets should also be on the wiki,
for various reasons, including:
* An archive for future reference, when
I'm really not sure what this discussion is doing on tagging and have
redirected follow ups to talk (it has in the matter of a few mails
already gone substantially off-topic though).
The page in question is actually a fork of
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Map_Maker which was written
Some of the parts about OSM seems to be in the spirit of the project,
although I would word some of it a bit differently.
To the extent possible I think we should focus on the positive and avoid
negative statements about other projects, or over generalizations about
those projects. For example
I call people to review the wiki page Why OSM and not another collaborative
mapping service?.
link:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Why_OSM_and_not_another_collaborative_mapping_service%3F
It was written by a single user as a generic page to compare other
collaborative mapping services to
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 08:29:48PM -0600, Mike Thompson wrote:
To the extent possible I think we should focus on the positive and avoid
negative statements about other projects,
Why not, if they are true?
or over generalizations about
those projects. For example Your mapping service is a
