While it's factually correct to say that you don't have to take part in the
community to work with OSM, I seldom see that in practice. Missing Maps and HOT
are deeply involved in the OSM community. When we do see this gap between the
data and community anywhere in OSM, it's a great action to take on, to find
ways to make our community welcoming and understandable to more mappers. We
also need to recognize that OSM is a collection of communities, especially
along linguistic lines, and that we need to work more to integrate in positive
ways.
-Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
On Thursday, November 19, 2015 11:44 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote:
Am 19.11.2015 um 15:17 schrieb Paul Johnson:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:54 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,
Not sure what MM is, but how can you be anti-OSM and be on the Humanitarian
OSM Team? Seems rather self-defeatist.
MM == missingmaps, sorry.
The point is that you can use OSM, the infrastructure and tools, as a
convenient and free service for mapping without buying in to OSM the
collaborative, community driven mapping project, the only thing which is really
required is that you have to live with the licence as determined by the
contributors. In the end not much different than if you were to buy such a
service from ESRI.
Now we don't really require buy in to OSM the project when people sign up,
historically this has mainly caused issues with individuals and some times
companies that have gone off on a tangent. But there is no doubt that a lot of
things about OSM are "different", the rules, the structures (or rather the
absence of them), how we technically do things and in the end getting community
buy in to whatever you are doing, that are considered pesky annoyances and
particularly a hindrance when you are on a mission to save the world.
Simon
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