[Osmf-talk] Data Was: Re: Tiles

[John Whelan]

Just a comment end users who find OSM useful often start to contribute 
to make it a bit more useful to their needs.

"You mean I can just go in when we change a street name and update the 
map directly?"  They worked for the local municipality.

Cheerio John

Brian M. Sperlongano wrote on 6/5/2023 12:40 PM:
> I would encourage everyone in this thread to think for a moment about 
> what it means to be "in the OSM community" versus "an outsider". There 
> is an idea snaking through the discussion that people who contribute 
> as editors are inside the community and represent the sole valued 
> contributors. Further, I'm hearing a belief that people (or companies) 
> who *use* OSM data are "outsiders" or "takers" that are using the 
> precious resources contributed by the editors. If you view OSM from 
> the perspective of "givers" and "takers", let me offer a different 
> perspective.
>
> OSM is useful BECAUSE people (organizations, companies, apps, 
> services) take OSM data and do useful things that ultimately improve 
> people's lives. Further, these useful products, bundled with an 
> awareness that they're based on OSM, drive people to become 
> contributors to improve their experience using the app or service. 
> Every time someone uses [random examples] Strava, Geocaching, or 
> AllTrails, and they see a problem with the map and figure out how to 
> edit it and make it better, folks, that's what success looks like in 
> my book. Applications that use OSM data, including those that use 
> OSMF-funded tile servers, fundamentally help our cause by 
> proliferating awareness of a public-editable map. Driving users of OSM 
> data away from the community is a great way to make us less relevant.
>
> I wish there were just as much focus on attracting OSM data users as 
> there is on attracting individuals to edit the map. Both are important 
> and contribute to the goal of free and open geodata.
>
> That all being said, I also understand the real-world reality that 
> servers and bandwidth cost money and that we have to limit what we can 
> make available from a pure cost and resources perspective. That's just 
> smart management. I applaud the OWG for continuing to thread the 
> needle on making OSM and its adjacent services free and open to the 
> extent possible while preventing excessive use that harms other users 
> or exceeds our ability to provide.
>
>
>
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