On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/14/2012 07:25 PM, Simone Cortesi wrote: >> > >> in addition to this: I've been part of this community for a while (7 >> years) and never heard about this people pretending to be from the >> university of Münster, Germany. > > > This, sadly, is a general trend in the acamdemic community. Many of them > seem to believe that it is unfitting to become too involved with the object > of study; that you can either be a good community member or write study OSM > but not both. This leads to a lot of papers being written by people who have > never set foot in a forum or mailing list, often haven't even mapped or been > to a pub meet. >
Not to say perhaps this isn't a trend, but I don't think true in the case of the University of Münster. Meaning representatives from the Geoinformatics programs do come to State of the Map and do contribute to the project. I think some consideration has to be take as well that the project is getting much bigger and not everyone is going to know everyone. There are plenty of people that map regularly and don't participate in the main mailing lists either, because they just want to map and don't feel the need to be social or maybe language is an issue. -Kate _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
