<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 7 Aug 2012, at 13:38, Gregory <<a href="mailto:nomoregrapes@googlemail.com">nomoregrapes@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div>The image of the week "
<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">These are </span><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><b><strong class="selflink">Featured images</strong></b></i><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">, which have been identified as the best examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or as useful illustrations of the OpenStreetMap project.</span> "<div>
This week, "<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">The </span><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.03566&lon=23.78789&zoom=17" class="external text" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">Olympic stadium in Athens</a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> is one of </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping" title="Remapping" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">many things</a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> currently only visible on the </span><a href="http://map.4x4falcon.com/?lat=38.03917&lon=23.78675&zoom=16" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">CC-BY-SA map</a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> and not OSM since the </span><a href="http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">license change</a>" <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Olympic_stadium_athens_ccbysa2.png">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Olympic_stadium_athens_ccbysa2.png</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I disagree that this image is a best example or a useful illustration of the project, and I think it's very negative.</div><div><br></div><div>Within a day, it's out of date because someone has mapped it (and better than it was in CC-BY-SA). The person proposing or adding the image of the week could have been more useful by doing that mapping.</div>
<div>It conveys a message of "OSM is not as good as it was" or "things are missing".</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd say that's an excellent message about what OSM can do – it took a whole of 1 day for the whole place to get remapped in better detail than anyone else!</div></div><br><div>Bob</div></body></html>