[Osmf-talk] What's our USP? | Re: "Legitimacy from an election process to direct attention" – Your response to the question regarding Working Groups

[Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski]

Hi,

Assumption that there is a map in Google Maps or in some government mapping
agency is not very helpful. (Or that there is a government agency, or a
government at all).

As someone from Belarus where maps used to be just two roads for the whole
country in most map providers, and now government uses OSM because there's
no other option really, I'd like to confirm that need being covered is
indeed *maps*. Maps that exist outside of normal corrupt structures.

I hope we can elect a board that would be able to accommodate both need in
maps for developing countries (we're sick of craft, you want anything -
your only option is to craft it) and need in craft for developed countries
(where you have Google Maps and governments that made maps for you, and you
can pretend OSM is just a hobbyist project).

Thanks.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:36 PM Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:

> On 12/12/2019 23:45, Michal Migurski wrote:
> > For many places around the world the need is for *maps* and not for
> *craft*.
>
> If you just want a map, go to Google Maps, or a government mapping agency.
>
> If you want more than that, join us in OpenStreetMap.
>
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