<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OSMF chairman Simon Poole blogged on May 7, 2013: <em>“Now, with the new editor and our plans for new hardware, we’re stepping up another level to make OpenStreetMap, not Google, the default choice for mapping and map data.” </em></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><em><br></em></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Started as an initiative by some community members, four Openstreetmappers are currently thinking about the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">future</span> of Openstreetmap. How might OSM <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">look</span> like in 2020? Is it necessary and, if so, possible to compete with a 50 bln dollar company which can buy anything it wants? What can people, interested in geographic data, achieve when they cooperate? Is there a need to increase the feeling to be part of a community? How can we get people to use Openstreetmap apps and improve the data?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The four Openstreetmappers are Clifford Snow (USA), <span style="white-space:nowrap">Markus Semm (Germany), </span><span style="font-size:13px">Dermot McNally (OSMF board member, Ireland), Dave Corley (Ireland) and Johan de Ruijter (The Netherlands). We would like to enlarge this '</span><span style="font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">future</span><span style="font-size:13px"> team' to a group of about 10 people, preferrably geographically spread around the globe. If you are also interested in thinking about the </span><span style="font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">future</span><span style="font-size:13px"> of OSM, and have enough time to spend 1 to 2 hours per week on this till Summer 2014, then you're most welcome to join us by sending a mail to </span><a href="mailto:osmned@gmail.com" style="font-size:13px" target="_blank">osmned@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:13px">. You can find more info in the wiki: </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Future" style="font-size:small;font-family:arial" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">Future</span></a><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dermot, Clifford, Dave, Markus, Johan</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div>
<div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div>
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