<div dir="ltr">Thank you for your support in this regard. I think we will find many people who think the same way. The Polish community has been heavily involved in many large projects for some time. The parcel machines initiative came from fellow editor tomczyk, who is one of the most active members of the OSM Poland community.<br>I am very sorry that an organization that pays great attention to equal treatment and democratic management fails here.<br><br>Translated with <a href="http://www.DeepL.com/Translator">www.DeepL.com/Translator</a> (free version)<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">śr., 1 cze 2022 o 09:56 Jeroen Hoek <<a href="mailto:mail@jeroenhoek.nl">mail@jeroenhoek.nl</a>> napisał(a):<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear Włodzimierz,<br>
<br>
You've written the email I've been trying to work up the courage to <br>
write myself. Thank you for kicking off this discussion.<br>
<br>
I am an occasional contributor to Carto, and some of my contributions <br>
are part of the style and (hopefully) benefit users and mappers every day.<br>
<br>
You correctly point out that Carto is not 'just a style' for the <br>
community, and that it is the face of OpenStreetMap. Sure, anyone can <br>
render the data anyway they like, but around the globe many people see <br>
<a href="http://openstreetmap.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a> as the canonical representation of OpenStreetMap, and <br>
use it for all sorts of things.<br>
<br>
A local newspaper here in Leeuwarden gratefully uses screenshots from <br>
the default layer for their articles. On the Dutch forum we have a huge <br>
thread filled with examples of people using OpenStreetMap for all sorts <br>
of things, often using Carto as the rendering layer. There are many <br>
examples of such use around the globe.<br>
<br>
While some will reply that there is nothing wrong and that anyone <br>
complaining is just jealous their favourite feature doesn't get <br>
rendered: just look at the issue concerning highway=busway for a typical <br>
example:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4226" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4226</a><br>
<br>
This is a tag that has broad community support, was accepted as a <br>
proposal over a year ago, and is used thousands of times. Yet no <br>
maintainer has stepped up to add it to Carto. The only thing that does <br>
happen, is a bunch of gatekeeping where irrelevant or long since <br>
addressed concerns are raised again and again.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, mappers keep getting user feedback about 'missing roads on <br>
the map', and other mappers keep holding back using it, 'because it is <br>
not rendered in Carto'. If your local newspaper uses <a href="http://openstreetmap.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a>, <br>
this is not a standpoint I can find much fault with. We can keep yelling <br>
'OSM is only a database!', but this isn't helpful for our users.<br>
<br>
(Note: I have submitted a pull request to render highway=busway, so I am <br>
probably not a neutral voice in this matter.)<br>
<br>
For the past few years I've felt that Carto is stagnating (despite the <br>
appreciated efforts by some of the maintainers). OpenStreetMap is not a <br>
static project: things change, tags get suggested, amended, improved. No <br>
one is expecting every new tag to be rendered right there and then, or <br>
even at all in Carto, but as it stands even small bugs cannot seem to <br>
get fixed, and minor improvements consistently get frozen by pointing to <br>
huge five year old meta-issues that 'must' be solved first before we can <br>
consider rendering any new icon or change some colour, or *do anything*. <br>
(And those meta-issues never get fixed either.)<br>
<br>
There also appears to be no room to actually try to advance the style. <br>
Not necessarily because of negative (and often not constructive) <br>
feedback, but also because none of the maintainers seems to have the <br>
time or the inclination to engage with the community to actually do some <br>
cool stuff (e.g., <br>
<a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/4346" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/4346</a>).<br>
<br>
From my viewpoint, two problems seem to plague the project, having a <br>
non-negligible impact on OpenStreetMap: a lack of resources (maintainer <br>
time, support from the foundation) and a disheartening negative style of <br>
communication that amounts to gatekeeping brandished by a minority of <br>
the maintainers.<br>
<br>
For the latter: search around on the OpenStreetMap channels on Discord <br>
to get a feel from the community on this.<br>
<br>
So yes, something is broken here, and I too would like to engage the <br>
OSMF board to consider a way forward.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Jeroen Hoek<br>
<br>
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