[Osmf-talk] DWG survey on organized editing
Christoph Hormann
chris_hormann at gmx.de
Wed Oct 18 10:50:24 UTC 2017
On Wednesday 18 October 2017, Joseph Reeves wrote:
>
> [...]
> The whole thing, I think, is completely unrepresentative of the
> global OSM community,
I find it quite remarkable how people started "shouting down" the survey
result before the survey was finished and now start along the same
lines again before anyone has even started to interpret the results
w.r.t. regulating paid/organized mapping.
Please don't abuse people from parts of the world underrepresented in
OSM or in the OSMF or this survey as pawns to lobby for your interests
or those of an organization you represent. If you want to activate
mappers from Asia, Africa and elsewhere to contribute to the discourse
on paid/organized mapping that is certainly welcome - although it would
have been much better to do this while the survey was still running -
have you attempted to do something in that direction?
Arguing in that direction if you are from Europe or North America and
involved with organizations performing paid/organized mapping (who
are - as Martin pointed out - likely overrepresented in the survey) is
frankly just petty.
The DWG who organized the survey by the way has repreatedly called for
people from underrepresented parts of the world to volunteer for DWG
work for a long time - with relatively little success so far. So if
active mappers from outside Europe and North America want to do
something for better representing their region in the OSM community
volunteering for the DWG or for other working groups would be a good
place to start.
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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/
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