<font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">My personal view is Google is offering something that end users want to use and is willing to accept contributions in a well thought out manner. People understand what they are trying to do and can relate to it.<br>
<br>We used to have a project plan on the wall that had the step "then a miracle occurs" before the desired result happens. I think OSM is a bit like that at the moment.<br><br>Yes you can use statistics to say if you have enough mappers then it is probable that the answer will be correct however what seems to be unclear at the moment is what are the objectives for OSM. <br>
<br>Different people have quite different objectives and how the data in the map can be used or even what it can be used for doesn't seem to be well thought out. It seems almost a byproduct of mapping parties and until that happens we don't have a clear simple message to communicate about what we are doing, and if we don't have it then some one else will.<br>
<br>Cheerio John <br><br> <br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 December 2011 14:57, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org">m@rtijn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I didn't even know that GMM had introduced peer reviewed edits,<br>
apparently they did so a while ago. 'Review some contributions and get<br>
yours reviewed faster' is what it told me when I logged in.<br>
And now they overhauled the UI to make it that much easier to contribute.<br>
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We're definitely losing (potential) mappers to GMM. I don't have to<br>
tell you that's a shame -- all that effort going into creating<br>
non-free data. But how do we divert some of that energy to OSM?<br>
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<a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/12/mapping-made-easier-with-new-google-map.html" target="_blank">http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/12/mapping-made-easier-with-new-google-map.html</a><br>
<a href="https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_opens_editing_process_to_everyone.php" target="_blank">https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_opens_editing_process_to_everyone.php</a><br>
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