On Jun 16, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Eric Pritchett wrote: > > * There is often a misconception that OSM is a street focused > project. I think this would be the most important. It's > amazing what a name can do.
Sometimes you pick a name that has drawbacks. But everybody knows what the name means, and understands the product behind it. Take, for example, "Open Source". It was chosen to be descriptive; not a good idea if you want to use it as a trademark. "Free Software" has its own drawbacks if you want people to think about freedom rather than price. I try to emphasize that OSM is about geodata SUCH AS streets, just like the mission statement says. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson r...@cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
