On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:55 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 March 2011 20:45, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't agree. Of course it is important how much of the data will >> survive, but it is even more important to not loose active >> contributors. > > Many that were previously active contributors have since stopped > contributing until this mess is sorted out since they don't want to > waste more time and effort on improving things if the efforts of that > labour is thrown out at a later date.
...and many prospective contributors are being shunned away because a new contributor doesn't have the same privileges as existing contributors. i.e. existing contributors can use non-CT compatible data, but new users cannot. Nor is there any way for a new contributor to work their way up and obtain the same status of existing contributors (in terms of permission to use non-CT data. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
