<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:13 PM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">To put this another way, what would happen if someone traced google</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, in the case of Haiti this is exactly what happened a lot -- with Google's permission, though.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And so, the question is actually pretty darned good: Why would OSM users not allow their contributions to help alleviate humanitarian crisis if even the big G did?</div><div><br></div><div>And having said that I want to point to my original post where I tried to emphasize that I respect the choices of the mappers. It's just that I'm guessing that not many who have declined or haven't decided but are leaning towards declining have thought of the humanitarian / global development / even poverty reduction side of their "hobby". ... And if asked, not many of them would want to make life even more difficult to the world's underprivileged. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers from Haiti,</div><div>-Jaakko</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><a href="http://osm.org/user/jaakkoh">http://osm.org/user/jaakkoh</a></div></div>