<div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/1 Iván Sánchez Ortega <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ivan@sanchezortega.es">ivan@sanchezortega.es</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
El Lunes, 1 de Febrero de 2010, 80n escribió:<br>
<div class="im">> It is right that we are all concentrating on creation of content. But,<br>
> what we haven't had yet is any commercial map data consumers telling us<br>
> what they need. Well, in a way, maybe Nav4All is telling us what it<br>
> needs... and I sometimes hear Cloudmade banging on about routing.<br>
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</div>The problem with this is the "sofixit" response.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>No it's a different kind of problem. More like the gratification from seeing something rendered. If there's a nice rendering for embankments and cuttings then people will tag them, if there's no rendering then they won't get tagged.<br>
<br>If you knew that your city's map would be used by Flikr once it reached a certain standard then you'd probably be more motivated to reach that standard.<br><br>So if a commercial company says what their standards are, then this will motivate some people to reach for these. <br>
<br>80n<br><br><br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OSM works like many other open-source projects, where someone says: "Hey, X is<br>
bad" - and a developer replies "Yeah, and this is open source, so fix it".<br>
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The OSM community works the same way. I'm not going to work for a company just<br>
because they ask for it very nicely. Dammit, if a company wants me to fix OSM<br>
in some way, I could as well get paid for that!<br>
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Maybe the time is coming for the business model in where I get OSM data, fork<br>
it, fix it in some way, and stamp a "certified technicial-approved version"<br>
on the cover. For just a couple grand.<br>
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You want OSM to comply with certain quality standards? Well, either invest in<br>
that, or pay for that. But it's not gonna magically come from the users.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <<a href="mailto:ivan@sanchezortega.es">ivan@sanchezortega.es</a>><br>
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</div>Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja.<br>
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