Am 11.07.2013 20:16, schrieb guillaume: > ... > When I first read these sentences I was in shock. I had always assumed > that the goal of the project was to create a free and open map that > could be used by anyone.
I can't speak for Steve, I suspect that the specific issue didn't cross his mind in the very early days. But at least for a long time the goal (even if not explicitly stated) has been to collect and create free and open map DATA that can be used by anyone. Now should there be a all singing and dancing map site based on OSM data? Absolutely! However we've expected that somebody other than (for lack of a better term) "core OSM" would take the OSM data and create such a site. MapQuest Open and the other sites that have been mentioned are examples where that has been done. What hasn't happened is that a larger player has gone full in, that may still happen, maybe it needs a parallel community effort, maybe it should be "core OSM". As has been pointed out before, the competitive landscape has changed a lot with google becoming the near monopolist at least for online mapping services and maybe we have to rethink I would normally at this point out that we don't really have any role model to base our strategy on, wikipedia historically being the only major consumer and service provider using its data, and for that reason not being comparable to OSM, but that is naturally no longer true (google is very likely serving more wikipedia content to the public than wikipedia itself). Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
