[OSM-talk] can the Northern Cyprus editor contact me please?

[tim]

The main difference, is that wikipedia is stuck with just one view,
the one website, whereas OSM is the data, and potentially multiple
views / maps of that data.

At the moment, people are editing the data with only one aim:
to change the  openstreetmap.org rendered map.
It's the wikipedia model, but it need not apply to us, we can be so much more.

So, we need to separate the data with the view, and we can do that,
because we are not Wikipedia.

And so, I can envisage the data being (very easily) able to
accommodate multiple representations of reality, and tools being
present that are able to display these (bit harder).

Regardless of the fact that these tools are not in place now, we
should bear this aim in mind, and work with the data, not just for
editing the pretty openstreetmap.org map view, but as an important
dataset in its own right, one that is capable of supplying multiple
views.

Tim



On Nov 16, 2007 11:06 AM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> On 16 Nov 2007, at 09:43, Mikel Maron wrote:
> > So I think there's two guidelines. OSM should accurately represent
> > all legitimate points of view. While at the same time, fairly and
> > without provocation.
>
> This is nice, but it assumes that all people are rational and nice,
> when they're not.
>
> I applaud the effort going in here, but it's clearly not sustainable
> to do it for every case that's going to come up in the future - and
> that's just the ones where people will (sort of) talk. I think we just
> have to get used to edit wars in future. Are there any lessons, other
> than giving up, learnt from wikipedia?
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
>
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