[OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

[Richard Fairhurst]

Oliver (skobbler) wrote:
> Some people might want to achieve a wider use for humanitarian 
> projects. Then address referencing won't help and a license change 
> won't change either. There needs to be common understanding of 
> the vision where OSM is seen in five years from now. 

No, there doesn't.

You're talking about it as if these things are mutually exclusive. They're
not.

OSM right now is the best map in the world for cycling _and_ the best map in
the world for humanitarian use.[1] This hasn't required a single focus on
either; the focus comes because different people scratch their own itches. I
want to see a world where people drive less, so I map the National Cycle
Network. Many OSMers want to see help for Haiti, so they helped to map
Port-au-Prince. And so on.

You keep bringing up addressing because it's important for Skobbler (which,
incidentally, I think is a superb product). But that doesn't require me to
stop mapping the NCN, or the HOT guys to stop mapping Haiti. It certainly
doesn't require that OSM settles on a strategy to concentrate on one of
these three. Rather, you - as the person who cares about it - simply need to
build some good tools and JFDI.

cheers
Richard

[1] vast over-generalisation. Your locality may vary etc. etc.
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