Hello Everybody, I have been talking to Paul off list, and it seems that I misunderstood some of the emails about the POI feature. I mistakenly thought that the POI feature might get rejected because it was focused on end users rather than mappers. This is apparently not the case. Sorry for bothering everybody + EWG with this.
Thanks Jason. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Jason Remillard <remillard.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > >> >> When you talk about Users, who are you talking about? To me, the users of >> openstreetmap.org are a) mappers, who use the site to veryfiy their work and >> b) people using (or aiming at using) the data in their projects, mashups, >> products or papers. >> >> I, personally, don't see my neighbour, planning a trip to his parents, as a >> user of openstreetmap.org *although* he may be a user of the >> openstreetmap-data, nicely presented in another project. > > Lets look at some of these downstream projects. > > In the US, craigslist is a huge site using OSM data right now. 60 > million different people a year. Note, nowhere does it say that can > EDIT the map and fix a mistake by going to osm.org site. How is > somebody supposed to know that? > > http://boston.craigslist.org/search/aap?useMap=1&zoomToPosting=&query=&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk=&bedrooms= > > Next up foursquare. > > https://foursquare.com/explore?cat=food&near=Pepperell%2C%20MA > > Again, users of foursquare don't have a clue that they can edit the > map! You need to click on the "about this map" link and land into a > very technical blog post that mentions OSM at the end, again without > telling people that can EDIT the map. > > Now, I am very happy that these companies are using the map data, I really am. > > You can't expect the downstream data users to carry our water for us. > We need a map that lots of people use, with a big fat EDIT button at > the top. Dumping features from OSM.org because they might be useful > for a weekend trip is shooting ourselves in the foot. Could you > imagine a world where Wikipedia had a bunch of good looking consumer > facing sites without edit buttons with just subtle hints back to a > editor only site. We are geo wiki, lets not be afraid to act like one. > > Thanks > Jason. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
