[Osmf-talk] seeking funding ideas

Emilio Anzon emilio at anzon.it
Wed May 5 08:52:44 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:29:50PM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote:
> On 29 April 2010 13:45, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> > > Just an idea... if you hate it, that's OK :-)
> >
> > I dislike it for several reasons. Two of them are
> >
> > (a) We have no "main OSM map", on purpose. We are not a map drawing
> > project. What exactly would we be selling to sponsors - would they not
> > come and complain that their company logo is not on the cycle map, or
> > not on the Cloudmade tiles, or not on the tiles at home map?
> >
> > (b) I fear this to be a can of worms where people suddenly think they
> > are entitled to request that their logo be moved a little bit so as not
> > to touch the road, or complain that the logo of their filling station
> > does not render because of the proximity of another logo or label, and
> > so on. "But I'm paying for this!!!!"
> >
> 
> +1
> 
+2

\Emilio
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