Re: [OSM-talk] WikiProject_FLOSS (was: OSM composer not open source?)

2010-05-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Nic Roets wrote: > 2010/5/2 Niklas Cholmkvist : >> I added an Introduction at >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS . I didn't put very > > The most important reason (for me at least) to write OSM related > FLOSS, is increase the rate at which tag

Re: [OSM-talk] WikiProject_FLOSS (was: OSM composer not open source?)

2010-05-02 Thread John Smith
On 3 May 2010 08:36, Nic Roets wrote: > The most important reason (for me at least) to write OSM related > FLOSS, is increase the rate at which tags are standardized. For > example, if contributors find that their favorite router generates bad > routes, they look for bugs in the underlying data. I

Re: [OSM-talk] WikiProject_FLOSS (was: OSM composer not open source?)

2010-05-02 Thread Nic Roets
2010/5/2 Niklas Cholmkvist : > I added an Introduction at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS . I didn't put very The most important reason (for me at least) to write OSM related FLOSS, is increase the rate at which tags are standardized. For example, if contributors find that t

Re: [OSM-talk] WikiProject_FLOSS (was: OSM composer not open source?)

2010-05-02 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Στις 02-05-2010, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 13:01 +0200, ο/η jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com έγραψε: > Thats a great idea! > I have started to add some subproject ideas. I added an Introduction at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS . I didn't put very much effort in the Introduction and I'

Re: [OSM-talk] WikiProject_FLOSS (was: OSM composer not open source?)

2010-05-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Thats a great idea! I have started to add some subproject ideas. mike 2010/5/2 Niklas Cholmkvist : > On 1 May 2010 15:22, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com > wrote: >>> It sends a bad message to have non free software being promoted our wiki. > > John Smith wrote: >> Companies offering commercial

[OSM-talk] WikiProject_FLOSS (was: OSM composer not open source?)

2010-05-02 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
On 1 May 2010 15:22, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote: >> It sends a bad message to have non free software being promoted our wiki. John Smith wrote: > Companies offering commercial services are also on the wiki, OSM's > primary goal is freely available data, there is no demand for only >