On 7/29/08, Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
OSM _is_ expressly here to encourage an ecosystem. It's here to
> collect the data and then get people to do funky things with it.
Speaking as a relatively new contributor to the project, I think this is
absolutely fundamental. I d
Henry Loenwind wrote:
> That sums it up rather nicely. OSM is only about collecting data, people
> that are interested in using the data are not really welcome very much.
Nonono. And here's another difference between OSM and Wikipedia.
OSM _is_ expressly here to encourage an ecosystem. It's here
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Henry Loenwind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>> let's keep
>> the focus on filling up the database
>
>> I'll give 100% support to the 20%, the 80% should wait some more or
>> better still try to do some mapping, somewhere, anywhere!
>
> That sums it up
On 29/07/2008 09:21, Tom Chance wrote:
> What a lot of effort! Why bother?
I agree. In fact more than that, I think it would be damaging.
For most people, the idea of "abstract" mapping data is a hard concept
to grasp. The map renderings (in practice Mapnik, as I doubt most
non-participants eve
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Someone wrote:
> let's keep
> the focus on filling up the database
> I'll give 100% support to the 20%, the 80% should wait some more or
> better still try to do some mapping, somewhere, anywhere!
That sums it up rather nicely. OSM is only about collecting data, people
that are interested in usi
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