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</head><body text="#000000">Just a comment end users who find OSM useful
often start to contribute to make it a bit more useful to their needs.<br>
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"You mean I can just go in when we change a street name and update the
map directly?" They worked for the local municipality.<br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<span>Brian M. Sperlongano wrote on 6/5/2023 12:40 PM:</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">I would encourage everyone in this thread to think for a
moment about what it means to be "in the OSM community" versus "an
outsider". There is an idea snaking through the discussion that people
who contribute as editors are inside the community and represent the
sole valued contributors. Further, I'm hearing a belief that people (or
companies) who *use* OSM data are "outsiders" or "takers" that are using
the precious resources contributed by the editors. If you view OSM from
the perspective of "givers" and "takers", let me offer a different
perspective.<div><br></div><div>OSM is useful BECAUSE people
(organizations, companies, apps, services) take OSM data and do useful
things that ultimately improve people's lives. Further, these useful
products, bundled with an awareness that they're based on OSM, drive
people to become contributors to improve their experience using the app
or service. Every time someone uses [random examples] Strava,
Geocaching, or AllTrails, and they see a problem with the map and figure
out how to edit it and make it better, folks, that's what success looks
like in my book. Applications that use OSM data, including those that
use OSMF-funded tile servers, fundamentally help our cause by
proliferating awareness of a public-editable map. Driving users of OSM
data away from the community is a great way to make us less relevant.</div><div><br></div><div>I
wish there were just as much focus on attracting OSM data users as
there is on attracting individuals to edit the map. Both are important
and contribute to the goal of free and open geodata.</div><div><br></div><div>That
all being said, I also understand the real-world reality that servers
and bandwidth cost money and that we have to limit what we can make
available from a pure cost and resources perspective. That's just smart
management. I applaud the OWG for continuing to thread the needle on
making OSM and its adjacent services free and open to the extent
possible while preventing excessive use that harms other users or
exceeds our ability to provide. </div><div><br></div></div>
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