Can you explain to me what a "rapid anti-OSMer" is? I can only assume that is someone that prefers to use proprietary maps....likely a contributor to Google Mapmaker. Anyone who takes the time to get a OSM user account, contributes data, runs a mapping event or otherwise introduces people to OSM can hardly be considered anti-OSM. I think sometimes Missing Maps and HOT are singled out because it is easy to figure out what they are doing since much of the conversation seen is in English. Plenty of communities around the world have different views and ways of contributing to the project. Those stories don't always come out though and those groups aren't usually vocal on the osm-talk mailing list.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > 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>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 >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing > listtalk@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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