On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > > <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> And that's just fine, GMM getting more users doesn't make OSM worse. > > > > But there is a limited supply of people willing to become mappers. I > > see it as a case of market share (between GMM and OSM). > > I don't think that either Google or OSM are anywhere near exhausting > that "limited" supply. When we have, say, 100,000,000 contributors > each, then it'll become a worry. > Maybe, but while the "supply of people willing to become mappers" is limited, it isn't fixed. I took a quick look at GMM, and it looks to me like it's not a bad introductory class for potential OSM contributors. GMM doesn't offer anywhere near as many features as OSM, and given their business model it seems unlikely to me that they ever will. And then, even if they do, there would be nothing stopping someone from contributing to OSM and then importing their contributions additionally into GMM. If that becomes something people might be interested in, all OSM would have to do is offer an easy way to export just one contributors contributions, in whatever format GMM uses for imports (right now I don't see anything, but in this hypothetical GMM has gotten it together and started offering the same features as OSM).
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