[Osmf-talk] Death and evolution

[Matt Amos]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Ilya Zverev <ilya at zverev.info> wrote:
> But — what do mappers have? Oh, JOSM editor,
> which is still considered extra hard, and which hasn't really turned
> smarter or easier than it was in 2006. If you want to edit relations —
> the ultimate challenge — that's the only editor you have. Ten years
> have passed, but we still, even in Europe, print screenshots and go
> outside to draw on them. We collect low-quality GPS data and pretend
> it's the best source. We have zero tools for mapping from behind
> a wheel. We have no classification of tags. No reverter that can be
> used by more than 0.001% of users. Nobody had time to make any of
> those.

these all** sound like good ideas that mappers would want to have, and
possibly would contribute towards. perhaps it would be worth setting
up a project to focus on these things, getting funding through
kickstarter / indiegogo / whatever? or setting up a "local chapter"
type organisation to self-organise around a community?

cheers,

matt

**: apart from the classification of tags - i'm not quite sure what
you mean there and i think any fixed ontology would be bad for OSM,
but that's an entirely tangential discussion we can have somewhere
else.