[Osmf-talk] AGM

[Simon Poole]

Could we make at least a token attempt to stay roughly on topic? Steve 
is just trolling here (with a straw man he probably doesn't even realize 
is totally out of date).

Simon


Am 20.10.2024 um 16:03 schrieb Steve Coast:
>
>
>> On Oct 20, 2024, at 5:19 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel.maron at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In 2023, we organized a successful fundraising campaign 
>> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/category/organisation/fundraising/ (the 
>> total announced results were £373,000, not sure if that's the source 
>> of the $300k figure).
>
> Yes, and that is genuinely great, but the question is what do we get 
> for the money?
>
> The major output remains the free global tile server, where something 
> like 99% of the usage is by third parties and not OSM. We create our 
> own funding requirement and dedicate our sysadmin time to running this 
> thing despite completely free alternatives now existing (e.g. 
> https://openfreemap.org/ ) and then celebrate the “growth” of our 
> “service”.
>
> We could use these resources to, for example, complete the map.
>
> It seems cheaper and more effective marketing to run a free 
> OpenStreetMap coffee and hot dog stand in Times Square, New York City.
>
> Best
>
> Steve
>
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