<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp6e70b696yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div>There are better solutions to displaying this list -- I think we're all well aware of that, previously in development and now in this discussion. We choose alphabetical for simplicity for launch. Schemes involving a larger/small number of examples, scripting to randomize the order selection, etc -- these are all good ideas. As said before, work on PRs are welcome.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp6e70b696signature">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div></div>
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On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 2:18:48 PM EST, Michael Reichert <osm-ml@michreichert.de> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br clear="none"><div class="yqt8773381456" id="yqtfd85248"><br clear="none">Am 28.11.18 um 16:21 schrieb Toggenburger Lukas:<br clear="none">>> Do you find anything odd about it?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Christoph, you make it really thrilling... (in german: "Du spannst uns auf die Folter!") ;-)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Is it that most entries don't have links?<br clear="none">> Is it that most entries are from European countries and the USA?<br clear="none">> Is it that the URL says <a shape="rect" href="https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/about-osm-community/ " target="_blank">https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/about-osm-community/ </a>"about osm community" but there isn't an entry about mappers? (I haven't read all texts...)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> What is it? I won't be able to sleep until I know the solution to your riddle... ;-)</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Six companies are not located in the US only:<br clear="none">Air France<br clear="none">Baidu Maps<br clear="none">CARTO<br clear="none">Deutsche Bahn<br clear="none">Grab<br clear="none">SNCF<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The list of government agencies is very diverse but it is difficult for<br clear="none">me to call the section "news and media" a diverse list.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Four companies have links pointing to "proofs". One of the proofs would<br clear="none">lacks a proper attribution as required by Open Database License if it<br clear="none">used OSM. Although I am one of the members of the German OSM community<br clear="none">with contacts to Deutsche Bahn, I have not asked them to add the<br clear="none">attribution for three years because I doubt that the data being used is<br clear="none">OSM data at all (proofing usage of OSM on a medium scale map you cannot<br clear="none">zoom and pan is quite difficult).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am not sure whether the list is really a good idea. I don't want to<br clear="none">advocate to use one of the very long (and unmaintained) lists on the<br clear="none">wiki. But I wonder what requirements a company has to meet to be added<br clear="none">to this list.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Have all these companies been asked whether they want to be listed<br clear="none">there? We might not be required to ask but I think it is best practice<br clear="none">to ask someone before you use their name to advertise yourself or your<br clear="none">services. (In contrast, lists at our wiki are fact collections from my<br clear="none">point of view)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best regards<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Michael<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten<br clear="none">ausgenommen)<br clear="none">I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (does not apply on mailing lists)<div class="yqt8773381456" id="yqtfd94507"><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yqt8773381456" id="yqtfd13688">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">osmf-talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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