[OSM-dev] Seperate Advertisements fom osm stuff please
Nick Hill
nick at nickhill.co.uk
Wed Jan 17 00:35:26 GMT 2007
Perhaps if we aren't likely to see revenue from Google to any degree/ any time
soon, and the adverts offer competing products, maybe re-assign that space to
ask for donations in a more flamboyant way.
Eg
openstreetmap. The world-wide wiki map you can edit.
Map your Area :: Donate today
Thank you to those who have donated to Open Streetmap Foundation!
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|||||||||| £56,789 | £200,000
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80n wrote:
> Nick
> Approximate revenue split:
> Google = 0%
> Storage Depot = 40%
> Donations=50%
> Misc=10% (Amazon, etc)
>
> IMHO Google are doing themselves no favours if they don't exercise any
> quality control over their advertisers.
>
> 80n
>
> On 1/16/07, *Nick Hill* <nick at nickhill.co.uk
> <mailto:nick at nickhill.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> How much revenue do those ads actually draw?
>
> Does most of the money come from donations?
>
> Is it possible we could have more donations without the ads?
>
> How could we use that space more effectively for OSM if it wasn't
> used for ads?
> Eg would the space be used for effectively with a call for donations
> (Like
> wikipedia?)
>
> These are not rhetorical questions.
>
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote:
> >> Can we PLEASE make really clear which is advertisement and what
> is OSM-stuff.
> >> I think, simply adding someting like
> >
> > Reminds me of how I recently drew ridicule from a colleague to
> whom I
> > preached about the benefits of having free and open map data. He said
> > that Google Maps was all he needed, and I was stupid enough to reply
> > something along the lines "and even if these commercial services are
> > free of charge, you always have nasty advertising" - prompting him to
> > point out the advertising on the OSM pages.
> >
> > Bye
> > Frederik
> >
>
>
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