[OSM-talk] OSM book in English published

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Thu Sep 16 01:17:50 BST 2010


Dave,

Dave F. wrote:
> Apologies for living in the real world, but why do I need a highly 
> priced printed book for information that is, or should be, available to 
> all *free* of charge on line (apart from internet charges, obviously) 
> for a *free* & *open* crowd-sourcing project such as OSM?

You are totally right. All information in the book - and even much more 
than that - is already available for free on the OSM wiki and in various 
read-mes and tons of mailing list posts. I'm pretty sure that the book 
doesn't contain anything that has not been written by someone on these 
mailing lists in the past few years. (And being a major contributor to 
the book as well as to the mailing lists, I am part responsible for that.)

The book form is just a convenience format for those who prefer being 
brought the information rather than fetching it for themselves.

Bye
Frederik

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