<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Steve Doerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doerr.stephen@gmail.com" target="_blank">doerr.stephen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On the contrary, I use
<a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a> all the time. Whenever I encounter a place I'm
unfamiliar with, I look it up on <a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a>. I almost never
look at renderings of OSM data through another web-site. In
Facebook postings and emails, where I want to link to a map it's
invariably to <a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a> that I link. I personally don't
see <a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a> as a contributor-oriented web site. I see it
as a showcase to the world - though of course it must always
provide me with a pathway to edit the database.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Steve</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br clear="all"></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">+1, same here. It's as much about adding data to the map as it is making other people aware of the existance of OSM. Whenever I see a map with information in it from my home country, it's always from Google. By showing people that you can pull data from OSM and showing them that there are other map services out there than the big 2 (Goog and Bing), you might bring other people into the community. <br>
<br>I understand why the front page is redisned as it is, and I think the info blurb isn't too big, at least for my screen, just wanted to express here why people should know that OSM is also a map, not just a Database.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br>Life is not the amount of times you breathe, is the moments that take your breath away.<br><br>To all things comes an end. And to all things comes a beginning.<br><br>Cred in inspirat, nu in expirat. in vise, nu in somn. In trait, nu in existat.
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