SimonPoole wrote > > 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 is a second aspect to this too though, motivation. If every time someone suggests some improvements into the consumer side of things, they get shot down by the "oldtimers" and other people who decide what happens in the project, because they want to stay as geeky as possible and not adapt to becoming more consumer oriented, then the motivation to code any feature in that direction is close to zero. There is probably not much that can kill motivation to work on a project in ones own free time more than getting told your effort isn't wanted and then having to fight for getting something included for years... The first step to getting coders, therefore, is imho to actually have a desire to want to include these kind of features. As long as there remains a hostile environment to these things, they won't happen and you end up having a viscous circle. I know full well, there is much more that is needed than just the desire to make things happen, but the desire is equally necessary. Kai -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Things-People-Say-tp7131801p7137764.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
