On 7 Aug 2012, at 13:38, Gregory <nomoregra...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> The image of the week " These are Featured images, which have been identified
> as the best examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or as useful illustrations of
> the OpenStreetMap project. "
> This week, "The Olympic stadium in Athens is one of many things currently
> only visible on the CC-BY-SA map and not OSM since the license change"
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Olympic_stadium_athens_ccbysa2.png
>
> I disagree that this image is a best example or a useful illustration of the
> project, and I think it's very negative.
>
> Within a day, it's out of date because someone has mapped it (and better than
> it was in CC-BY-SA). The person proposing or adding the image of the week
> could have been more useful by doing that mapping.
> It conveys a message of "OSM is not as good as it was" or "things are
> missing".
I'd say that's an excellent message about what OSM can do – it took a whole of
1 day for the whole place to get remapped in better detail than anyone else!
Bob
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