Frederik Ramm wrote: > Robert, > >> In my opinion a logo has to reduce the amount of representation to >> the absolute essence in order to work right. > > [...] > >> I chose to stick to the basic aspect of marking things on a map > > "Marking things on a map" is the absolute essence of trivial POI > collection projects. There are *lots* of them and your logo would > probably work very well for them. > > OSM however is not about marking things on a map, but rather about > making the map in the first place. I don't like your logo because it > suggests that we do nothing more than the millions of people who > produce Google mashups. It fails to capture the essence of OSM. > > Bye > Frederik > I don't reduce the project I reduce the logo. If only there was a decent way to visualize the process of making a map! Didn't work out for me. Unluckily I don't see how putting a magnifier on 1s and 0s on a map shows any kind of "making" anything either.
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