[Talk-us-massachusetts] disappearing ruins?

[Bill Ricker]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:27 AM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> *Not having community control of the Standard layer on our front-page is a
>> devil's bargain.*
>> *Since i'm not willing to partake of US OSM Board Politics, i throw my
>> hands up and say whatever.*
>>
>
> I'm on the the OSM US board, and I'm wondering if you could elaborate?
>

Elaboration:
If i never attend another 501(c)(3) board meeting in my life it will be too
soon; that's not specific to OSM.

(


*I am on record if you scroll back far enough to before the first vote that
we shouldn't need a US Corp & Board. This is not an invitation to argue
what wonderful things the board has done, that'd be off-topic on the
OSM-US-Mass list.*
*I'm just declaring my bias.*)

> While we (OSM US) has no control over what goes on the osm.org web site,
>

Right, there's nothing your local board can do about decisions mother-OSM
has given away to others (e.g Carto) :-/ .

we do control openstreetmap.us, and a community map style (OSM Americana)
> is under active development.
>
>From the previews I've seen, that *OSM Americana* style will be *great
looking* !
That's been an coming attraction for a while now.
Who's ponying up the render farm and tile-server to make OSM Americana the
default style on a slippy map at *openstreetmap.us
<http://openstreetmap.us>* ?

(*When and If that works, you may be able to convince me that having an OSM
USA Corp & Board separate from OSM.org is useful even if not necessary*.)

Alas, OSM Americana will still not be the "standard" for viewing USA from
easy to remember well publicized URLs like *osm.org <http://osm.org>*, as
long as Carto owns "standard".  One holds little hope of Americana being
added as a low down option with ÖPNVKarte at the bottom of the list. :-(

(If your board has any influence with *OsmAnd* (and any other major apps)
at all, convincing them to offer Americana as a style when the view is in
USA would be excellent.)

Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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