<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 9, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Alex Barth <<a href="mailto:alex@mapbox.com" class="">alex@mapbox.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Steve Coast <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com" target="_blank" class="">steve@asklater.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you want all these rights, you can just pick up the phone and pay HERE or TomTom for them, they’d love to hear from you.</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What's more interesting than sending people to HERE and TomTom is making them contributors to OpenStreetMap, no?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Absolutely, but at what cost?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>OSM solved 95% or 99% of our problems. Should we fundamentally change OSM to claim the last 1% so someone can make slightly more money or complete an academic project? I don’t think that’s a worthwhile tradeoff. I’m super happy with the 99% we achieved already.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>As a sidenote, we should think about etiquette for how many employees from one firm contribute to discussions: It would not be fair for volunteers to be spammed by companies & their customers. I propose companies appoint one person to round up feedback per organization?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Steve</div><br class=""></body></html>