[OSM-talk] OSM and Linked Data, and W3C, etc ...

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

brendan barrett wrote:
> I'm not going to speculate on the fruits of such an exercise. My point
> is simply that if someone is willing to do so, then why stop them or
> belittle their effort.

True, and API 0.6 has been available for testing and reviewing for a 
while now. If there is somebody willing and able to review it they will 
have done so by now, and we won't stop them or belittle their effort!

This is different from asking around whether somebody perhaps knows 
somebody who might be a database genius and who might perhaps be willing 
to lend us his ears so that we can explain to him what OSM is about, 
what we've done in the past, what we'll do with 0.6, and why and where 
we'd value his opinion. We might go to such lengths if we were in really 
deep shit and didn't know how to get out without external help, but I 
don't see a reason for that right now.

I'm also a bit offended by the fact that people seem to think that 
anyone who has written a few RfCs must surely know people who can easily 
usher OSM into a new era by applying their vastly superior knowledge - 
and that's in spite of me not even having designed anything close to the 
heart of OSM.

Finally, I think that Tim has a right to be a regular mapper like anyone 
else on this list, picking his area of interest and doing a little work 
there, without everyone challenging him to get involved more and to send 
his friends and organisations to help. Has it occurred to anybody that 
he might just be in it for a bit of recreation like so many of us?

Bye
Frederik

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