[talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

[John Smith]

On 31 January 2011 22:38, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:27 AM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
>> I think what they have a problem with is that its so open-ended, like we
>> just have to trust the OSMF because they'll do no wrong.  Hang on a
>> second, this is sounding vaguely like some heated discussions from a few
>> months back.
>
> OSMF doesn't direct JOSM development.  Or Potlatch or Merkaartor
> development either.  I'm not aware of any OSMF board members being
> involved in development of an OSM editor.[1]
>
> [1] Steve was at CloudMade when they were working on an editor but I
> don't know if he wrote code for it.

Yes and the US government didn't ask Amazon.com to take down
wikileaks, but Amazon was probably being a little protective due all
the large hosting contracts it has with the US govt.