Thanks for taking the time to review and respond everyone so far. It's great to see that there is general support for this idea (there are certainly a couple of issues to work through). I'd like to give people more time to weigh in before responding to the threads that are emerging in this discussion, please don't take my silence as absence from the discussion in the meantime.
On Jan 12, 2013, at 4:07 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/12/2013 12:45 AM, Johan C wrote: >> The message in my opinion should invite people more to act themselves >> instead of relying on others to create a map. > > That's a very good point. We've occasionally used the phrase "made by people > like you and me" or so, to make it clear that we strive to include everyone > instead of having creators on one side and consumers on the other. But I like > your "take a look and join in" too. > >> (and this of course preferrably in the correct language version) > > I'm sure our community would provide translations quickly. This is also the > first time where I think that we might perhaps want to give translators the > option of exchanging the imagery as well. I'm not a communications expert but > it is quite possible that an image that works great for Europe and the US > suddenly is problematic in India or Japan. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
