<span id="mailbox-conversation"><div>HOT eases people into OSM and gives them an easily understood purpose to begin mapping. Some HOTties go on to be power OSMers outside of HOT; some never step away from HOT. Both reflect individual preferences, not any isolating tendency by HOT. HOT tries to build communities and encourages interaction with OSM within the framework of its mission. There’s a lot to improve (with limited resources) but we fully intend to build up OSM through our work. Mikel’s use of this discussion to launch a helpful github issue ticket is a good example.</div>
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<div>As for how the humanitarian sector understands OSM: until HOT came along the humanitarian sector didn’t understand OSM, period. The conversations I had in 2010-2011 and the conversations I have now with fellow humanitarians about OSM are light years apart in terms of technical depth and understanding of OSM’s workings.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Simon Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><mailbox-attach filename="signature.asc" size="499" mime="application/pgp-signature" src="mailbox://attachment_download/75358CE4-8638-4493-B3E1-BA83B6220F56/E75358CE4-8638-4493-B3E1-BA83B6220F56_1518288603703327849/1.2"><signature.asc></mailbox-attach></blockquote></div><br>