I think Justin is right.
The OSM community lacks an inspiring vision towards the future of OSM. Instead of focusing on GEO-data and MAP usability, the last 2 years to many of the key players of OSM have been focusing on only one topic : the license change. How can any potential user of OSM get a good impression of what is possible from the base map ? And indeed, mentioning Mapnik as a base layer is too much honour for the software creating it. Thank you Justin, for the effort you put in showing where we actually fail. Communicating with our potential users ! Lets learn our lessons, and create some kind of working group focusing on that. If we can get as many people motivated for this topic as there were for the license change, our showcase, the base map will improve quickly. Gert Gremmen ----------------------------------------------------- Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) P Before printing, think about the environment. Van: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] Namens Jonas Krückel Verzonden: Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:18 PM Aan: Milo van der Linden CC: OSM Talk; 41latit...@gmail.com Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap FYI Justin posted a note to clarify his intention behind the article and a few other points: http://www.41latitude.com/post/1313261274/osm-response -Jonas Am 14.10.2010 um 14:07 schrieb Milo van der Linden: Dear 41latitude, I came accross your blog on "critique of OpenStreetMap". http://www.41latitude.com/post/1310985699/openstreetmap-critique and read it with interest. Some points are true, others need better explaination and I think you misinterpreted some things. Basically your critique can be drilled down to 3 main components: [...]
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