[Talk-GB] Vote on new name for Freemap

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Monday 13 Nov 2006 21:20, John McKerrell wrote:
> Yay, I got first vote.

Well done :-)

> 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 

Not me!!!!  ;-) 

> 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.

Personally I still think that OSM has become too established to change, but 
others may disagree...

Nick