El Lunes, 1 de Febrero de 2010, 80n escribió: > It is right that we are all concentrating on creation of content. But, > what we haven't had yet is any commercial map data consumers telling us > what they need. Well, in a way, maybe Nav4All is telling us what it > needs... and I sometimes hear Cloudmade banging on about routing.
The problem with this is the "sofixit" response. OSM works like many other open-source projects, where someone says: "Hey, X is bad" - and a developer replies "Yeah, and this is open source, so fix it". The OSM community works the same way. I'm not going to work for a company just because they ask for it very nicely. Dammit, if a company wants me to fix OSM in some way, I could as well get paid for that! Maybe the time is coming for the business model in where I get OSM data, fork it, fix it in some way, and stamp a "certified technicial-approved version" on the cover. For just a couple grand. You want OSM to comply with certain quality standards? Well, either invest in that, or pay for that. But it's not gonna magically come from the users. Cheers, -- ---------------------------------- Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es> Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja.
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