[OSM-dev] Using native social SDK for signing in to OSM on mobile

Ineiev ineiev at gnu.org
Fri Dec 25 05:36:32 UTC 2015


On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 01:55:06PM +0300, Ilya Zverev wrote:
> My answer is, absolutely. If a random person walking with their phone adds
> opening hours or marks a shop closed, I don't care if she/he is a part of
> community or not.

What if they add copyright-encumbered data as well?

> I think it's time to stop taking OSM for a playground of a few geo-geeks.
> There are thousands of people who fall for "free and open wiki map", and
> millions who don't care, but who use our map and want to have the freshest
> data on it.

I'm used to think that OSM is _the_ project for those who care; for those
who don't, there is plenty of other possibilities, isn't it?



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