Paul,
Paul Houle wrote:
However, I'll say that the claim that "we don't have the resources
to do it right" is a "bad smell" that I often perceive around
organizations that are in a death spiral. Back when I worked in the
library field, it struck me that librarians were just conceding
everything to the likes of AMZN and GOOG.
I think you haven't understood what Milo said.
OSM is not a competitor to Goole, Bing, or Mapquest. OSM is a competitor
to Navteq and Tele Atlas. We do have the resources to do that right and
we're using them.
Navteq and Tele Atlas have rubbish map web sites, if any, because it is
not their core competency to make cool map web sites - they are a
supplier to those who do.
And so are we. We are indeed "conceding" making cool map web sites to
the users of our data, because this is not our core competency and not
our strategic aim.
Anyone can make a cool web site showing off OSM data. That's why we
don't have to.
Bye
Frederik
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