On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:01 PM, ajt1...@gmail.com <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22/11/2015 12:51, Colin Smale wrote:
> ...and once again, as seems to be the norm in OSM, any minority interest > which is not supported by the oligarchy gets mercilessly shot down. > ... except it's not _just_ the "oligarchy", is it? No-one on this list > seems to have a good word for the original idea. And even many of the the lurkers don't. Central repository is bad for longevity. Actually I'm impressed by Google's attempt called open-location-code, it's actually pretty useful, completely open and doesn't require a central authority. Kind of no-brainer including their already provided javascript on a page, and the hierarchical approach is really neat. grin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
