[talk-au] Plea to Australian decliners

[Grant Slater]

On 30 March 2012 21:43, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 March 2012 01:54, Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
>> Australian Decliners,
>>
>> As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I
>> kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is
>> about to run out.
>
> You and others didn't care about us, told us to go away as we were
> insignificant and our issue were unimportant and now you come begging
> for us to reconsider.
>

Bull. Michael Collinson spent months trying to get approval from
data.gov.au for approval... finally did. Pity the importer refuses to
relicence even if the data is OK.
LWG spent months negotiation with NearMap and got approval, but not
exactly how we hoped.
OSM(F) is not some nefarious organisation... I'm like everyone else in
the project it doing it for fun, interesting and for the making
something great... I have a "real" day job that is not related to osm.

Mr John Anonymous Smith... the community will be better without you.

Glad the license change is nearly over and we can get back to what we
enjoy... Mapping and building the bloody best map (data) of the world.

Regards
 Grant