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12pt;font-family: Verdana;">I think from both party's point of view it
would be better if we worked a little more closely. The pub meeting
fourteen years ago set up the framework and how OpenStreetMap should
work as far as nodes and ways are concerned. The core were people who
understood the need for accurate data and without that meeting HOT would
not exist as it does today.<br><br>In Nepal there was a lot of mapping
done that had to be cleaned up afterwards and I think that was a concern
raised locally.<br><br>Currently in the Ebola crisis there is concern
about the quality of building mapping.<br><br>In Africa generally the
quality of some imports and mapping is such that it would generate
outrage if done in a German city.<br><br>Far from HOT being the boogyman
on the OSM lists it seems to me that OSM/OSMF is treated as the
boogeyman by HOT for trying to maintain the quality of the map.<br><br>HOT
I think concentrates on mapping to fill a specific request by a
specific NGO. OpenStreetMap works best by combining different mappers
with different interests to produce a map for everyone.<br><br>Humanitarian
work is not just done by the Red Cross. Smaller organisations make use
of OSM, I think one is a very small Belgian charity that installs water
wells. Just two or possibly three a year by water engineers in their
vacation time. These are far too small for a HOT project but they are
important users of OSM.<br><br>We're seeing delivery services servicing
areas that were unmapped before and they are paying mappers to map the
roads. They make money, their customers have a wider range of goods at
lower prices available. Many of these customers are in the income level
that the NGOs try to improve their income. It's happening without a
charity being involved. <br><br>OpenStreetMap is used for many purposes
and accuracy helps.<br><br>Cheerio John<br> <br><br><br><br><span>Dale
Kunce wrote on 2018-12-16 2:35 PM:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CADOF=4+41eRg4k-aWYTLB6ymdDbLWb9OPW+BhR=Xc+JAPZW=ZQ@mail.gmail.com">Bluntly,
I'm tired if HOT being used as the boogyman on the OSM lists.
I'm tired of the anti-humanitarian vibe of these list serves by a small
group of very loud and active posters. I'm tired of being told that my
mapping or opinion doesn't count because I have a non-European centric
view of OSM and I wasn't around at some magic gathering in a pub 14
years ago. That just because I got paid to do OSM I'm somehow less.</blockquote><br><div
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