Am 09.07.2013 14:04, schrieb o...@k3v.eu: > > It just seems to me that if you have a shop window from 2006 a lot of > people aren't going to bother to come in and check-out the great stuff > you have in the back room. I believe that it is well recognized that we have a slight contradiction in the way we operate that on the one hand we want and need attractive "shop windows" to attract more mappers, on the other hand don't actually want to provide services to such contributors (outside of supporting contributing and editing). The, at least historic, way out is to assume that our data consumers, 4square, and all the others, are providing the shop windows and we only have to do something minimal for visitors that stumble on us by accident.
If this actually works is open to debate. What is clear is that our past role models (Navteq, TeleAtlas) have themselves departed more from the pure data collector/provider model than we have in response to market pressure (mainly google). Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk