On 10 January 2013 02:41, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > Scenarios where people are going to get upset over OpenStreetMaps are > considerably fewer than ones where people get upset with Wikipedia. (In fact, > when people do get upset about maps, they'll usually get upset with Wikipedia > too. At WikiConference India, members of the nationalist BJP protested > because of Wikipedia's map and description of the situation in Kashmir.*)
Though offtopic , the same group also has another set of gang or groups which vandalises the wikipedia articles and you can hardly see any political articles on India with NPOV ( Neutral Point Of View) because a major group of editors come from a certain group and are well versed with all kinds of rules which wikipedia editors use to remove/revoke/edit an article . Coming to mapping in India , Kashmir might be the one border issue where "International territory " and "line of Control" are two different lines and can be interpreted by various cartographers in whatever way it pleases them . Google maps India doesnt even show the line of control , google maps US shows it as a dotted line , OSM shows it as bordder . I would admit the fact that OSM is not that popular ( atleast in India) that people who vandalise articles in wikipedia havent yet started . Lets say it to the advantage of the tools being hard to use even for the wikipedia editor , also would be the other fact that there is less data here(India) for them to seriously consider OSM as a map which needs to be checked up / bothered with . Google enjoys the complete dominant position with people fighting editor wars in mapmaker . Personally am I waiting for a surge of mappers ? No I am not , I would rather see a surge in mapping and effective usage of tags , hopefully which the future editors could clearly include some 2 minutes of tagging tutorial . Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
