[OHM] Is OpenHistoricalMap officially part of OSM Foundation?

[Rob Nickerson]

>i had a conversation with paul about a week ago and this came up, and
>he does have good reasons for doing it.
>
>richard
>

Hi Richard,

There are also a lot of good reasons to not do this (as set out in my email
to talk-gb). I would argue that there are many more good reasons not to do
this, than there are reasons to do this. Just because we have a UI issue,
does not mean we should make it harder for people to view these layers. And
who decides whether it is "historic" of "no value" to current mapping?

Best regards,
Rob

p.s. I'm not a contributor to OHM, but to my eyes it seems that the most
sensible thing to do would be to make OHM part of OSM (by handing the
rights over to OSM Foundation). Obviously the maintainers are going to be
the same people as now, and the OSMF are hardly going to tear things apart,
but at least you will have the "official" status and the backing of the
board. You would get increased publicity, and we would avoid situations
like the current one. I'll leave it at that as I'm aware that I can be
insulting the way you guys have decided to run your project.
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