I think OSM should stay away from direct recommendations. However, I could see OSM providing a forum for users to give their own personal recommendations.
I think the problem with user reviews is that few users have access to many different products. If you are writing for a car magazine then you get to drive lots of different cars. The GPS I have now is pretty much the only one I've every used. I have no idea how it compares to other GPS units. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/GPS > says: > "Thinking of getting a GPS Receiver to add data to OSM? These reviews > are here to help." > > Well, if you have a particular model in mind, and want to know if it's > any good, then they are some help. But if your mother has told you "I > want a GPS with a screen for my motorbike, which I can also use for > gathering OSM data", then trying to read through and compare 50 > different models is impossible. > > Would it be really too controversial for OSM to have a "we particularly > recommend these N models" page, where N is small? Clearly, the NaviGPS > (which I own) would be one, because it's good and OSM gets some money. > But it would be great to have some sort of consensus on models in other > price/capability brackets, perhaps a little more than a few mailing list > messages saying "I have a Foo GPS, and it's fine". > > What do people think? > > Gerv > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- http://bowlad.com
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