[OSM-talk] Philosophy about Autorouting for Cyclists and new key class:bicycle

Ulf Lamping ulf.lamping at googlemail.com
Tue May 4 08:52:52 BST 2010


Am 04.05.2010 03:15, schrieb Felix Hartmann:

> Arguing about how long someone is inside OSM, is an argument I cannot
> follow. Of course I have only been a member of OSM since 3 years, of
> wich the last 2 years I was more active than the first one. However
> putting prior achievement as a requirement for being allowed to voice
> opinion, is to me ultraconservative and hingering progress.

Oh, fine, reminding you that some other people around here spend a lot 
of effort before you even appeared makes me ultraconservative.

If you ask
> me, who I think is the person who has done most for OSM, I would say
> Carsten Schwede aka Computerteddy and Steve Ratcliffe because without
> their work, OSM wouldn't be anywhere near as popular. If someones work
> brought a few thousand people to OSM then to me he is more important
> than someone who maybe mapped 10x as much. However this should be blody
> irrelevant.

I guess Computerteddy is pretty much aware that he is standing on the 
shoulders of giants.

You don't seem to be aware of anything :-(

Regards, ULFL




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