[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

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 13:39 2019-12-13, Christoph Hormann đã viết:
> 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.
>
Sure, but I might as well describe OSM as “maker culture for maps” and 
cut out the craft mapping bit in that case. Besides, not everyone is 
steeped in maker culture. OSM should be relevant even to people who’d 
never visit a makerspace or attend a Maker Faire, for instance. 
Likewise, I sometimes describe OSM as “the Wikipedia of maps”, but that 
means little to someone who merely appreciates Wikipedia as a reader.

I’ve painstakingly hand-mapped more buildings than I’ve imported – using 
Potlatch and Yahoo! imagery, no less – but it doesn’t seem to meet 
Rory’s definition of craft mapping, since the buildings were still so 
sloppy that they drew other locals into OSM to correct them and 
eventually replace them with a higher-quality import. I was just pleased 
my mid-sized city had buildings at all. Unfortunately, given the 
discussion in this thread, I’m left wondering if we’ve forgotten about 
the middle ground between craft mapping and an “industrial mapping” 
label that no one is exactly fond of.

No single term does OSM justice when introducing the project to 
laypeople, just as no single label can exclusively describe the right 
way to participate. But I’d rather not introduce OSM in opposition to 
OSM data consumers. For all their faults, these services lend 
credibility to the audacious idea that we can collaboratively map the world.

-- 
Minh Nguyen <mxn at 1ec5.org>
Jabber: mxn at 1ec5.org; Blog: http://notes.1ec5.org/

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