Frederik Ramm wrote: > I would be reluctant to publicly recommend anything where OSM gets any > kind of kickback, _even if_ that device would be one I recommend in > private. That would look as if our recommendation could be bought!
Or perhaps the opposite; we like this so much and we want you to use it so much that we've gone to the effort of arranging a deal. Given that the people recommending don't get any money themselves, the "it's all self-interest" link is weak. > Maybe we should define a few categories ("BT mouse without logger", > "standalone logger without display", "standard hand-held GPS with > display", "outdoor-ish hand-held GPS with display", "in-car navigation > device") and identify the 2-3 best devices in each. That's just the sort of thing I had in mind. > But how would such > a list be kept current? As long as it is just a Wiki page, anyone can > add their GPS preferences or write about a cool new device. But if you > implement a process to reach a "project recommendation" then obviously > the final result would not be "just a Wiki page", it would be a page > which may only be changed after repeating the process... That sounds like a feature to me, not a bug... Perhaps we need a page "GPS endorsements". Or perhaps the ability to endorse items on the current page, and then order by endorsements. A crude form of voting. Gerv _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk