[Talk-GB] OSM and "The Big Society"

[Tom Chance]

On 2 March 2011 21:23, davespod <osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm> wrote:

> The Cabinet Office's "Office for Civil Society" has just published a report
> citing "international examples of The Big Society". Case study number 1 is
> OpenStreetMap:
>
>
> http://www.arnaudriegert.com/wp-content/uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf
>

Goodness, whoever wrote the case study needs to read the civil service
classic 'Plain words':
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140511994,00.html

'OpenStreetMap has come to the level of competing with... the community is
estimated to several hundreds of thousands contributors... the website has
virtually infinite possible inputs but also outputs.'

Tom

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