[OSM-talk] How to present OSM to an audience of potential newbies?

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Domingo, 7 de Junio de 2009, Tim Morley escribió:
> Failing that, how do *you* explain to someone that uses Google Maps
> every day why you spend your time re-creating the same thing under a
> different name? (Slightly provocative question, perhaps, but it must
> be a very common one too -- what's your answer?)

Show 'em the cycle map and say "you can't do this with Google". Or any 
alternate rendering, such as cloudmade's "pale dawn" for overlaying lots of 
other data (you could use geocommons' makr to showcase that).


Cheers,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

Un juguete irrompible es útil para romper otros juguetes.
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