<p dir="ltr">Seems rather overkill for expressing an opinion. Or is dissent no longer allowed? If that's the case, then that memo needs to be more thoroughly disseminated. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 15, 2013 10:58 AM, "Richard Weait" <<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I recommend a moderator enforced time out for Mr. Johnson.<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Johnson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:36 AM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to <a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a><br>To: "<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>
<br><br><div>On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Joseph Reeves wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ok, I'll bite...<br>
<div><br>>I think this would be missing our audience. If you're illiterate (a
group Twitter caters specifically to), what are the >odds you're going to
be able to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to
OSM?<br><br></div><div>How do illiterate people use Twitter?<br></div><div>Do illiterate people have no spatial knowledge that could be of use to the wider world? Is there no way that Open spatial data could help illiterate people?<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to express an intelligent thought in 140 characters or less. It's writing system just doesn't work that way. And you lose characters to tags or links. It's like Google+ without the intelligence, or Facebook without any functionality.</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>In my opinion OSM is going to really take off once we start making more use of social media, or other means of participation, such as SMS messaging (the sorts of things you couldn't do with closed spatial data, such as GMaps), and start thinking less of pixels on <a href="http://osm.org" target="_blank">osm.org</a></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>So pick social media that doesn't cater exclusively to a crowd whose education stopped midway through Grade 2. </div>
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