[Tagging] OSM changes the world | Re: Feature Proposal - RFC - Artificial

[Tobias Zwick]

The purpose of OSM is to **map** the world.

If this brings about positive change such as the things you mentioned 
(any many more), that's good and that is the reason why many people 
contribute to such a free wiki world map.
This is a huge difference to your statement! You seem to defend that OSM 
should be used as a tool to change language, for politically motivated 
reasons in this case.

OSM is as much about change as science, FOSS or wikipedia is about 
change. Who would trust wikipedia as a reliable source if their mission 
was to "bring about (political) change"?

In my book, furthering political or social ideologies does not even fall 
remotely under the mission of OSM. I dearly hope it stays this way.

Tobias

On 21/10/2020 09:49, Rory McCann wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, at 6:25 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
>> (4) I would prefer to not use OSM as a tool
>> to change language, especially if done at
>> cost of making more complicated for
>> mappers. AFAIK term "man made" and it's
>> meaning remains standard and is well
>> understood
> 
> The purpose of OSM is to change the world. We're trying to create a map of the world, build by enthusiastic local people and to give it away to everyone for free. We're trying to produce a geo commons for every person. It's too late to say that OSM shouldn't change anything in the world. 🙂
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