I’ve seen the micro grants, I’m not talking about funding from OSM Foundation. Basically if someone could identify a solution to some of the problems that come up in this tagging thread like “updating how X rendering process works”, and the community agrees, an appropriate developer(s) could be hired to fix that, which would enable other things. For example more complete and systematic local languages translation, “better” cartographic representation (two weeks ago conversation), more complicated water tags (a frequent topic here), whatever. The only “back-end cleanup” proposal I see is the denied osm2pgsql development <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_2020/Proposal/Osm2pgsql_development> .
OSMF states that they prefer enabling volunteers, vice paying for work, and these are capped at 5k EUR. There are ways that work could be directly paid for, which would better enable the entire community. From: Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Tuesday, 24 November, 2020 13:19 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging@openstreetmap.org> Cc: Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com>; 'Tag discussion, strategy and related tools' <tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Extremely long Amtrak route relations / coastline v. water https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_2020 would kind of illustrate what kind of money was requested for OSM-related projects. Some of that was pure or nearly pure software development, though most of them are either funded or were a quite poor proposals. Nov 24, 2020, 12:19 by walker.t.brad...@gmail.com <mailto:walker.t.brad...@gmail.com> : >Why is nothing in that direction in OSM-Carto right now? Because no one so far >has invested the volunteer time to do so an no one has invested the money to >pay someone qualified to do so either. And a large number of people consider >the status quo as good enough. "The good enough is an enemy of the great" is a >very common pattern in map style development. Is there a wiki page with a "wish-list" of things, with approximate costs where developers could post? There is likely a disconnect between those willing to pay, and those who could actually scrounge up the money. Thus, once consensus on what changes are needed has been achieved, we can scrounge for money? Walker KB -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de <mailto:o...@imagico.de> > Sent: Tuesday, 24 November, 2020 11:11 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [Tagging] Extremely long Amtrak route relations / coastline v. water Dave F via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org> > hat am 24.11.2020 01:24 geschrieben: Yes, but the demand was still made & So what? Someone (an individual, not 'OSM-Carto' as a whole) made a suggestion (and not a demand) that turned out to not be such a good idea and therefore did not achieve consensus. the solution of writing competent code to enable the proposal was never implemented, so your point is? I am not sure what you mean here. One of the problem of tagging boundaries on ways and one of the main reason why the idea did not reach consensus is that it does not solve any of the rendering problems w.r.t. boundaries in substance. Code for processing OSM boundary data for cartographic applications exists. Not all of it is open source and much of it is just rough implementations not robust enough for routine use. And there are of course very different cartographic problems to solve w.r.t. boundary rendering. Why is nothing in that direction in OSM-Carto right now? Because no one so far has invested the volunteer time to do so an no one has invested the money to pay someone qualified to do so either. And a large number of people consider the status quo as good enough. "The good enough is an enemy of the great" is a very common pattern in map style development. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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