[Tagging] [Wiki Talk] Why OSM and not another collaborative mapping service?

[Mike Thompson]

Some of the parts about OSM seems to be in the spirit of the project,
although I would word some of it a bit differently.

To the extent possible I think we should focus on the positive and avoid
negative statements about other projects, or over generalizations about
those projects.  For example "Your mapping service is a closed system" is
both negative and a generalization.  There may be some other mapping system
service that is also open like OSM that the reader is part of. Perhaps just
title that box "Closed Mapping Systems"

re:
"There multiple collaborative mapping services. Each of them is a direct
rival to OpenStreetMap in terms of competing for contributors and map
editing contributions. OpenStreetMap is better than any other competitor
for one simple and very fundamental reason"
This is not necessarily true.  For example, a project may capture data that
OSM is not interested in, and therefore it is not a direct rival.

Mike

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:59 PM, jgpacker <john.packer7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I call people to review the wiki page Why OSM and not another collaborative
> mapping service?.
> link:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Why_OSM_and_not_another_collaborative_mapping_service%3F
>
> It was written by a single user as a generic page to compare other
> collaborative mapping services to OSM.
> My issue with this page is that it's not generic at all.
>
> Am I the only one that thinks this?
>
> I didn't want to bother with this until it started being recommended
> elsewhere in the wiki as official.
>
> Cheers,
> John
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