[Osmf-talk] Death and evolution

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

By the way, the commercial maps are also trying to evolve, but in the
direction of the OSM.

For example, Google introduced Map Maker. It does not work well yet, if
at all (here is the article
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-map-maker-vs-openstreetmap-id-editor/
).

I remember e-encyclopedias before Wikipedia. For example, /Encarta/. I
read a book about how hard people worked on it, slept in offices, had a
multi-million budget, deadlines, etc. ( /I Sing the Body Electronic: A
Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier Hardcover,/ October 1,
1995, by Fred Moody). Still the Encarta is gone. The core principle was
wrong.

Now Wikipedia tries to go further with this principle, tries to involve
even more people into editing. This is the article in French language
about it from September 25, 2014: /Wikipédia part à la recherche des
femmes/
http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/Wikipedia-part-a-la-recherche-des-femmes/story/30826273
.

I, personally, like the JOSM editor. In my opinion, it is one of the
best programs in existence. As soon as one learns it, it is a powerful
tool for heavy mapping. I do not use browser editors at all anymore. I
hope it continues to evolve further.

brgds
Oleksiy





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