[Talk-us] New MapRoulette Challenge - Add Surface to Highways

[Greg Troxel]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> Then again, Ilya, unless your circumstances have changed drastically,
> neither your nor I are based in Canada or the US - if the community
> there is happy with TomTom making recommendations about what they
> would like to see mapped... fine.

A fair point, but

> I know that TomTom would encounter
> some headwind were they to do the same in Germany, but the fact that
> some European countries have a strong volunteer community has recently
> been the subject of ridicule by team Overture. Apparently, having
> commercial players in the driver's seat is considered natural
> elsewhere.

As a mapper in the US, I heartily second Ilya's comments.

I agree that even the phrase "commmunity manager" is not ok.