[OSM-talk] Things People Say

[Willi]

On 28. December 2011 17:21 Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org] wrote:

> I think that this is an attitude problem with some of the potential users
of OSM; 
> they assume that it is our job to make them like us. "Show me what you've
got", they say. 
> ...
> But as a project, I don't think it is not our job to reach out to users
and
> "sell" ourselves to them.
> ...
> In my eyes, we are not aimed at "map consumers". We are, to borrow
business terms, 
> a producer or maybe a distributor, but we're not a retailer.

Fully agree with the statements, especially with the above ones. For me too,
OSM is a free and open project to collect and offer geographical data and
not a map producer. I regard this as the project's advantage and strength
and thus should never be changed.

Willi