Hello all, thanks for interest in wiki featured images and for fixing the athens stadium. Few notes on why that pic was shown to the community...
The original mapping of that stadium seems to qualify as "best examples of openstreetmap mapping" for the same reasons that the London stadium did, even if it's not currently available on the ODBL-only view. It was created by openstreetmap users for the openstreetmap project, albeit at a date prior to the license change. It illustrates a topical (olympic) example of osm mapping, and an illustration (useful for historians if not for marketing) of one of osm's most important events recently. Week 30 showed this same change only as a progress-bar on a world map - that's great, but difficult to see exactly what it means. An example of a change done by that bot (whose work is widely supported and which we are presumably happy to talk about) is more clearly shown by a specific example of a cleaned area which is now available ready for odbl work to be based upon. Thomas picks-up on the reason for having such an illustration now, that of encouraging remapping. Hence the link to [[Remapping]] where people can find other examples of recently-reduced detail and fix them. The wiki text "Please help with Remapping" doesn't necessarily spur the same level of enthusiasm for remapping as seeing something which is lost and can be regained. Obviously this featured image is no longer doing such work to help remapping, since the one specific example was corrected. I assume the surveyors involved are continuing to fix many other locations and not just the trivial case of that one stadium. I'm not convinced that the image would have been "out of date" had it not been observed by me - can someone say that they were planning to remap the athens stadium this week and would not have done so had it not been the example chosen? Perhaps they could have started their week's mapping at some other site so that people didn't think they were doing it only to negate the message of remapping being necessary. best, OJW p.s. probably worth mentioning that a [[Featured_image_proposals]] page full of new and good images would go a long way towards making these images a community thing rather than one person's choice. I think we've had 11 nomiations this year, which doesn't really fill the first 32 weeks if you try to be selective about quality. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
