[OSM-talk] Countering Google's propaganda

[Anthony]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Nop <ekkehart at gmx.de> wrote:

> I believe that GMM can be a serious competition to OSM if it is simpler
> to use, easier to learn and thus more inviting to the casual newcomer.
>

I'm still not convinced that "competition" is the proper term for it.


> With GMM you have one way of mapping a simple item e.g. a bicycle track.
> Everybody can do it in ten minutes, no questions arise.
>
> With OSM you have two major tools, a huge load of tags, a wiki, a forum,
> several mailing lists, three different answers to the question, long
> discussions, pages of contradictory documentation, plenty of old
> discussions and after working through all this, you realize that the
> question has not been resolved yet.
>

Only if you care.  If you want simple, you click edit on potlatch, you draw
the way, you click on the car until it turns into a bicycle, and you select
"cycle track".

Then those of us on the mailing list write 1000 emails about whether or not
you were right, but you probably don't even notice it.
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