[OSM-talk] Things People Say

[Simon Poole]

I'm not quite sure where this rather emotional discussion is supposed to 
lead.

There is nothing stopping anybody from building this great hunking 
online map site with OSM-data with all the whizz-bang features they want 
(and it is conceivable that the OSMF could support such an enterprise 
parallel to "core-OSM"). Fact is that nobody has volunteered to do it, 
there hasn't been an attempt to do it commercially (hint: that might 
tell us something), there hasn't even been an attempt  to organize 
volunteers to build such a site.

My conclusion: this thread is actually about wanting -other- people to 
implement grandiose ideas in their free-time and being upset and whining 
when they are not particularly enthusiastic about it (because they want 
to do something else).

No money and/or no volunteers == nothing is going to happen.

Simon