I'm not quite sure where this rather emotional discussion is supposed to lead.
There is nothing stopping anybody from building this great hunking online map site with OSM-data with all the whizz-bang features they want (and it is conceivable that the OSMF could support such an enterprise parallel to "core-OSM"). Fact is that nobody has volunteered to do it, there hasn't been an attempt to do it commercially (hint: that might tell us something), there hasn't even been an attempt to organize volunteers to build such a site.
My conclusion: this thread is actually about wanting -other- people to implement grandiose ideas in their free-time and being upset and whining when they are not particularly enthusiastic about it (because they want to do something else).
No money and/or no volunteers == nothing is going to happen. Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
