<div dir="ltr">Some of the parts about OSM seems to be in the spirit of the project, although I would word some of it a bit differently.<div><br></div><div>To the extent possible I think we should focus on the positive and avoid negative statements about other projects, or over generalizations about those projects. For example "Your mapping service is a closed system" is both negative and a generalization. There may be some other mapping system service that is also open like OSM that the reader is part of. Perhaps just title that box "Closed Mapping Systems"</div><div><br></div><div>re:</div><div>"<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">There multiple collaborative mapping services. Each of them is a direct rival to OpenStreetMap in terms of competing for contributors and map editing contributions. OpenStreetMap is better than any other competitor for one simple and very fundamental reason"</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">This is not necessarily true. For example, a project may capture data that OSM is not interested in, and therefore it is not a direct rival.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">Mike</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:59 PM, jgpacker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.packer7@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.packer7@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I call people to review the wiki page Why OSM and not another collaborative<br>
mapping service?.<br>
link:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Why_OSM_and_not_another_collaborative_mapping_service%3F" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Why_OSM_and_not_another_collaborative_mapping_service%3F</a><br>
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It was written by a single user as a generic page to compare other<br>
collaborative mapping services to OSM.<br>
My issue with this page is that it's not generic at all.<br>
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Am I the only one that thinks this?<br>
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I didn't want to bother with this until it started being recommended<br>
elsewhere in the wiki as official.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
John<br>
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