[Openstreetmap-dev] openstreetmap roadmap?

[Tom Carden]

Lars Aronsson:
> Right now I'm looking for something better than openstreetmap.org,

What would it look like?  Why isn't OpenStreetMap it?  What is OSM doing 
wrong?

OpenStreetMap has around 5 (very) part-time developers, and we cherry pick 
from a (very) long todo list.  The list grows daily thanks to this mailing 
list (a major strength of the project, I think)  There's a lot of hype, a 
lot of enthusiasm, quite a lot of momentum, some reasonable infrastructure, 
some generous data providers, and a lot of potential.

As far as I know, the current developers (active contributors of code) don't 
really see the benefit of diving in head first with any of the current Open 
GIS solutions out there, for many reasons.  This is the main criticism 
levelled at OSM, yet nobody has a solution.  Certainly not one that anyone 
knows how to implement.

Steve has done his very best to make everything Open - where would you like 
to see OpenStreetMap go, and what's stopping you from helping?

Best,

Tom.