[OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Of course, sitting up you own slippy map is easier than setting up
> Windows, almost anybody can do that.  But a bunch of people each
> settign up their own map that implements the feature they care most
> about is not a very user friendly solution, either.

This is something I constantly preach on talk-de: We aim to be the 
geodatabase to end all geodatabases. Not the web mapping platform to end 
all web mapping platforms.

Everyone has different preferences, but it is just about conceivable 
that all of us together build a giant database with which everybody is 
more or less happy. - On the other hand, it would be absolutely 
impossible to create the web map that everybody likes.

And we don't have to! We are NOT a web map. As soon as we're popular 
enough any many people have set up map displays of one kind or another, 
we just kill the www.openstreetmap.org map display and just do API. We 
don't need revenue, visits, user counters, advertising click-throughs on 
www.openstreetmap.org. As RichardF pointed out: Let us *encourage* 
people to make their own cool web map from our data instead of trying to 
impose one view onto all! This capability is one thing that sets us 
apart from the others.

Bye
Frederik

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