<div dir="ltr">For the press it's simple: everybody knows Google, Google is 'hot'. Openstreetmap is relatively unknown. So writing about Openstreetmap won't attract a lot of viewers for an article. And I wonder whether the community really wants to see Openstreetmap turn into a big player which attracts a lot of press coverage. That is, I don't read it in OSMF's mission statement:<div>
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<li style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">To make OSM data available for anyone (for editing and in whole).</li><li style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
The data being current.</li><li style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The data to approach geographic truth (or “ground truth”).</li><li style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
That humans add and curate data.</li><li style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">That the data and responsibility for it belong to all contributors.</li><li style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
To facilitate decision-making in the community where necessary.</li><li style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">To be the ultimate “court” of conflict resolution.</li>
</ul><div>Cheers, Johan<font color="#333333" face="Georgia, Bitstream Charter, serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:24px"><br></span></font></div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2013/5/25 Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">How can we get more effective press coverage from events? Part of it is probably more people volunteering for the communications working group, but is there more?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Note: If you want to help with the CWG, email <a href="mailto:communication@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">communication@osmfoundation.org</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> James Mast [mailto:<a href="mailto:rickmastfan67@hotmail.com" target="_blank">rickmastfan67@hotmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 24, 2013 10:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>; <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Talk-us] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/collapsed-i-5-bridge-gone-google-maps-almost-quickly-it-6C10067906" target="_blank">http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/collapsed-i-5-bridge-gone-google-maps-almost-quickly-it-6C10067906</a><br>
<br>If I remember correctly, we had it marked as "access=no" and the segment removed about an hour faster than on Google. Somebody needs to get ahold of Rosa from NBC (who did the "article") and let them know about OSM pawning Google here.<br>
<br>-James<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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