[OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Fri Oct 15 12:25:39 BST 2010


On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:13:10 +0300
Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do not want to be so blunt, but I do not know any other way: then
> stop complaining about the map.  Or anything an OSM user can complain
> about at OSM, for that matter.  This is an open data project, so I
> have been told. 

that is where we differ - I contribute, and in no small manner, by
ground survey and mapping.
It is not an open *data* project, but an open /source/ project
and there is a tension between those of the computer meritocracy and
those of the mapping meritocracy.
We cannot exist without each other. Very few fit into both camps, but
the camps cannot exist without each other.
Do not forget those who document, those who test websites and coding,
for again, they are all important parts of the whole.



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