<p dir="ltr">I've not followed this thread too closely, but arguably OSM is meant to be made not used. Nobody should use OSM on a daily basis; that's what MapQuest Open, MapBox et al are for.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Using OSM on a daily basis would be like trying to read a dictionary as your only book: all the words are there, but the story is rubbish.</p>
<p dir="ltr">/Devil's Advocate<br></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Jul 2013 16:16, "Clifford Snow" <<a href="mailto:clifford@snowandsnow.us">clifford@snowandsnow.us</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"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryce2@obviously.com" target="_blank">bryce2@obviously.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>To date OSM is run by a group of mappers that caters to mappers. There is an unlikely but burning desire to somehow turn more ordinary muggles into mappers. It is as if the map was meant to be made, not used:</div>
<div>and it's working. Of the people I talk to and show OpenStreetMap, the vast majority have never even heard of it, and that includes land management, GIS professionals, teachers and engineers all who could in theory be interested.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What would drive more mapping would in fact be more passive users: some percentage will survive the test of fire on the tagging list and become mappers. OSM could offer high quality print exports, or one-click embeddable maps, or a dozen other compelling services. But someone would have to pay for all that bandwidth and user support, in order to glean a few more true believer mappers.</div>
</blockquote></div><br>I think you just created OSM new tag line, "OSM is meant to be made, not used" </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Adding muggle useable features would certainly be a step in the right direction.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div>
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