[HOT] Meeting with WB about MapMaker?

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Andrzej,

My issue with the agreement is I think it is short-sighted.  Maybe it
will "alleviate poverty" now, but will it stifle economic growth
later?  Is the decision a short-term gain which has really long term
consequences?

Personally I could care less of the World Bank "partners" with OSM or
anyone else.  I do care that they adopt and follow policies of using
actual open-data licenses.

Best,

-Kate



On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:41 AM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 3 February 2012 00:39, Martin Holmgren <d95marty at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good luck at the meeting, it will be very interesting to hear the World
>> Bank's reasons for choosing Google as partner over OSM.
>
> I hear everyone complaining about this decision, and me I'd also like
> everyone to just partner with OSM and never with Google, but in the
> end I can understand their position.  They're not choosing Google over
> OSM, they're trying to use all tools that are available to fight
> poverty.  OSM is one tool, GMM is another.  GMM has some an undeniable
> advantage, its popularity.
>
> The other day Frederik wrote a message in a thread about some data
> import in a HOT activation, saying something like "if the goal is to
> help build OSM community in that area, then this may be the wrong
> way".  I thought "duh... no, Frederik, the goal is to help rescuers on
> the ground save lives".  Now HOT is on the other side of the argument.
>  World Bank is doing something that in the long term may damaging to
> world's free data but right now it's helping fight poverty.
>
> Cheers
>
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