[OSM-talk] Things People Say

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 30.12.2011 17:22, schrieb Thomas Davie:
> You've not been misled, you've misread.
I don't think he has.

I think, we have to find a way in between.
I already mentioned my vision to provide a VIEW on the DATA, that the 
user can define himself.

In that vision, OSM is not about maps. OSM is about the data, and the 
user (not necessarily mapper) would add the map on top - in providing 
his own stylesheet.

Again: that's a vision, and probably somebody or even I myself would try 
to implement that: to change a front page of the project to a view of 
map data - which can be styles by the user on demand.

Nevertheless: The good ideas don't come from users who add two points 
("my home" and "my work") and then repeatingly view the nice map. The 
good ideas and benefits for the project come from people who do 
something with the data: Extending the data itself (mapping) or using 
the data in a new fashion, like many projects show: quizzes generated 
from osm data, routing applications, new styled maps and many more.
Of course these ideas support the project - but I think, they do it the 
same way like LibreOffice and Mozilla support ubuntu or debian - without 
being part of the distributor or distribution project.

regards
Peter