Thanks Dermot, you put it better than I did. On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Dermot McNally wrote:
> On 23 February 2010 20:17, SteveC <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > > An excellent and though-provoking post. It's rare to read something of > that length on such touchy subjects and agree with so much of the > content. > > If I had to pick a single most important theme as the central one, > it's the whole area of turning people away from the project before > they even begin and how that's a really bad thing. For a long time OSM > was so far away from being ready for mass appeal that it didn't really > matter if normal people stayed away. We don't have that luxury any > more. > > Our public face has to show us up at our best against the competition, > because the public doesn't know or care how clever it is under the > hood. But they do know what they can do with Google Maps and similar, > and we need to make those features an obvious and easy part of our own > front page, starting with mashable maps for the ordinary user. > > And yes, I'm prepared to work on it. > > Dermot > > -- > -------------------------------------- > Iren sind menschlich > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
