[Talk-GB] Vote on new name for Freemap

[John McKerrell]

Yay, I got first vote.

I did quite like OSM Outdoors, like "OSM Outdoors, an OSM partner"  
type thing, but I went for "Open Countryside" instead (though that  
might not be the easiest thing to google for). I have to agree with  
one of your earlier mails that perhaps OSM isn't the best name for  
the project overall and perhaps it does need to be given another  
name. I think it will help to gain acceptance of OSM in more fields  
to have another name for the overall project and shift OSM to be "the  
streetmap bitmaps, taken from 'Open Survey' data".

I am also a newbie to OSM so probably shouldn't be trying to rename  
the thing on my first post, but I do wonder that it's something that  
needs to be brought up. What's going to happen when we all have our  
georeferenced aerial photos that we've taken from weather balloons  
and private planes that we want to submit somewhere? I'm sure you  
noticed I made a suggestion above - "Open Survey" has a certain ring  
to it I think for obvious reasons, but perhaps the acronym is just  
that little bit too antagonistic.

John

On 13 Nov 2006, at 20:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

>
> Thanks for the suggestions for the new names for Freemap.
>
> As part of the shift in direction of the project towards mashup and  
> away from
> renderer, and because it's something I've been meaning to do for a  
> long time
> but never got round to it, I'd like to announce the "Freemap" blog,  
> which
> will be geared towards countryside use of OSM data, other  
> development tasks I
> might get involved in (like JOSM or OSM maps on Garmin) and other  
> things
> which might capture my interest.
>
> Not much there yet, but you can vote on the new name - I've taken  
> some of what
> I thought were the best suggestions plus a couple of my own.
>
> It's available at:  www.free-map.org.uk.
>
> Nick
>
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