This seems a bit of an odd time to announce a schism and I'm sure you didn't intend for your statement to come across as it just did.
While rabid anti-OSMers are gaining more power and influence in HOT and MM, I do assume that the majority of the HOT and MM communities are not falling in to the trap of believing their own marketing copy and realize that they are a small minority in the larger OSM community and are dependent on the good will and support of the wider OSM community to make a difference. Simon Am 19.11.2015 um 14:28 schrieb Kate Chapman: > Hi Christoph, > > The flaw with this logic is that people in HOT are not participating > in the OSM community. Is the OSM community to remain static and > "conventions" made years ago may never change? Do we not have the same > goal of a free map of the entire world? > > -Kate > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Christoph Hormann > <chris_horm...@gmx.de <mailto:chris_horm...@gmx.de>> wrote: > > On Thursday 19 November 2015, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > > > #MissingMaps #hotosm-project-12345 Lubumbashi, Congo (DRC) > > #100mapathons #OSMGeoWeek > > > > This is *not* useful. > > But to be fair this is not only the fault of the mappers but also > of the > HOT project managers since they specifically instruct mappers to use > such changeset comments. > > Generally the HOT project mapping instructions contain a lot of things > that are questionable from the viewpoint of the OSM community. > IMO HOT > needs to make sure these comply with the OSM conventions, for example > by sourcing these instructions from the OSM wiki and allowing the OSM > community to provide input and fixes this way. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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