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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Vào lúc 13:39 2019-12-13, Christoph
Hormann đã viết:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Friday 13 December 2019, Minh Nguyen wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> As an answer to
these questions, “craft” mapping mostly paints OSM in a quaint or
iconoclastic light, which misses the point. On top of that,
teetotalism is not uncommon around me, so not everyone particularly
appreciates the apparent reference to alcohol right off the bat.
(People here tend to think of “craft brewing”, not “arts & crafts”.)
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Have you tried using the maker culture as analogy?
Maker culture can be understood to be a bit of a rediscovery of the
appeal and value of handicraft in the post-industrial society and has
many similarities with the idea of craft mapping in OSM.
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Sure, but I might as
well describe OSM as “maker culture for maps” and cut out the
craft mapping bit in that case. Besides, not everyone is steeped
in maker culture. OSM should be relevant even to people who’d
never visit a makerspace or attend a Maker Faire, for instance.
Likewise, I sometimes describe OSM as “the Wikipedia of maps”,
but that means little to someone who merely appreciates
Wikipedia as a reader.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I’ve painstakingly
hand-mapped more buildings than I’ve imported – using Potlatch
and Yahoo! imagery, no less – but it doesn’t seem to meet Rory’s
definition of craft mapping, since the buildings were still so
sloppy that they drew other locals into OSM to correct them and
eventually replace them with a higher-quality import. I was just
pleased my mid-sized city had buildings at all. Unfortunately,
given the discussion in this thread, I’m left wondering if we’ve
forgotten about the middle ground between craft mapping and an
“industrial mapping” label that no one is exactly fond of.<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">No single term does
OSM justice when introducing the project to laypeople, just as
no single label can exclusively describe the right way to
participate. But I’d rather not introduce OSM in opposition to
OSM data consumers. For all their faults, these services lend
credibility to the audacious idea that we can collaboratively
map the world.</font></p>
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Minh Nguyen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mxn@1ec5.org"><mxn@1ec5.org></a>
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