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

[Christoph Hormann]

On Friday 13 December 2019, Minh Nguyen wrote:
>  As an answer to
> these questions, “craft” mapping mostly paints OSM in a quaint or
> iconoclastic light, which misses the point. On top of that,
> teetotalism is not uncommon around me, so not everyone particularly
> appreciates the apparent reference to alcohol right off the bat.
> (People here tend to think of “craft brewing”, not “arts & crafts”.)

Have you tried using the maker culture as analogy?  

Maker culture can be understood to be a bit of a rediscovery of the 
appeal and value of handicraft in the post-industrial society and has 
many similarities with the idea of craft mapping in OSM.

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/