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<p>On 2018-06-09 10:51, Christoph Hormann wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">On Saturday 09 June 2018, Colin Smale wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">This analogy also means that competition is essential for progress<br /> in OSM.</blockquote>
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<br /> How do we define "progress"? How do we conclude if OSM today is<br /> "better" than in the past? Are our processes becoming more mature? Is<br /> our data quality improving? Do we have more "customers" than before?<br /> What defined "goals" have we achieved?</blockquote>
<br /> I have not defined progress and don't need to for the argument i made. <br /> It applies for any definition of progress you might have. Or in other <br /> words: Here it just means the opposite of stagnation.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Stagnation is exactly where we are heading, isn't it?</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Phrases like "best map in/of the world" are fine in corporate mission statements but it's hardly SMART[1].</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Colin</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria</div>
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