Hi folks, This is my quick interjection to give kudos to everyone in this conversation for keeping what could have become a hostile or defensive thread really constructive and forward looking. As someone who spends a lot of time complaining about this mailing list, you've all done an excellent job of proving me wrong here, so I stand corrected, and appreciate it! This is a really great community :)
This seems like a good time to mention that on the talk-US list we're working on planning a Birthday Sprint in August to celebrate OSM's 9th birthday[1]. The general idea is for folks with software projects to gather their communities (or for folks looking to help to find a project that needs them) and take a weekend to write some code! It won't be an in-person event, necessarily, but I think there could be a real benefit from more eyes than usual being focused on development projects over the course of the August 10-11. In addition, we're working on making sure that there are tasks queued up for non-developers who want to participate. Anyway, it sounds like there are a lot of ideas on this thread that are already in progress, or are ripe to get started. So I hope that we'll be able to include them in the Birthday Sprint! Cheers, Kathleen [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-July/011355.html On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Simon Poole wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Cherry picking the quotes ... > > Google may be the 'first choice' but they are also in many cases simply > the worse choice. One of my own use of OSM is to provide location maps for > client websites. I make sure that they are on google and google+ but in > MANY cases when you zoom in on google all you get is a white area and no > indication of how to get to the premises. > > At the risk of being acused of advertising ... but in this case google > also has duff info which we have tried to correct several times over the > last year or so! > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**lat=52.10962&lon=-2.07388&** > zoom=18&layers=M<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.10962&lon=-2.07388&zoom=18&layers=M> > https://maps.google.co.uk/**maps?q=ohm%27s+mowers&ll=52.** > 10966,-2.074407&spn=0.001341,**0.003707&hq=ohm%27s+mowers&** > hnear=Broadway,+**Worcestershire,+United+**Kingdom&t=m&z=19<https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ohm%27s+mowers&ll=52.10966,-2.074407&spn=0.001341,0.003707&hq=ohm%27s+mowers&hnear=Broadway,+Worcestershire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=19> > > I then add a 'get directions' button to the contact page and take people > to a routing engine that actually knows the road a building is on ;) > > I'm happy to serve up my own tiles if needs be (the new server has been > rending the UK since Monday!), but the services available do the job quite > nicely at the moment. > > Education is the key here, and I certainly think that while we NEED a good > map server, making openstreetmap.org a link to a good getting started > page does make perfect sense. and add map.openstreetmap.org for the map > direct and keep wiki.openstreetmap.org as the documentation front page. > http://switch2osm.org/ is actually a cleaner front end at the moment? > > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - > http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=**contact<http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact> > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - > http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.**uk<http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk> > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> >
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