[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections: October 12 townhall with candidates

[Greg Morgan]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Michael Reichert <nakaner at gmx.net> wrote:

> Dear US electorate,
>
> Am Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:16:50 -0700 schrieb Alex Barth:
> > And - it's not to late to run for elections! Get your name up on the
> > list by October 10th.
> >
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/
> United_States/Elections/2015#Candidates
>
> And this is my censorious analysis reviewing all candidates:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nakaner/diary/36098
>
> *Summary* I think that some candidates are suitable and some are not
> suitable. It looks as the number of edits and the time since the first
> map edit is proportional to the suitability of each candidate (with some
> exceptions).
>

Thank you for the analysis.  It is the same message that I heard last
year.  I applaud the courage of these inexperienced mappers or whatever the
criteria is to run for the board. New blood and old blood would make things
better regardless how many nodes or their consistency level of adding map
features.  It feels like the experienced people want more mapping parties
like England and Germany for example.  That practice does not scale outside
of densely packed US urban areas. A new/old mapper might come up with a new
way of doing business in the US.  Experienced people like DBAs have told me
that I should not store images in a database.  Then MapBox comes along with
MBTiles and has a great solution to managing tiles. Inexperience people can
find new ways of looking at the same people that's results in game changing
techniques. The diversity of experience and opinions make this a strong
slate of candidates.  What would the US board do if the main problem is at
the OSF level as far as new ideas or unrecognized problems?

Regards,
Greg
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