[OSM-talk] Very Happy - Looking forward

[rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com]

Hi All,

== Reflection ==

I just want to take a moment to thank the people behind the redaction bot  
and contacting/re-mapping efforts. Toward the end of 2009 the members of  
OSM Foundation voted in favour of changing the license. This was not done  
for the fun of it, but because there was a strong belief that the change  
was needed to secure a better long term future for OSM [1][2]. After the  
vote there was to be no going back, whether you personally agreed or not.

During the following years many members have worked hard to try and contact  
fellow mappers (to seek their agreement to the new licence), to remap areas  
where earlier contributors did not agree/could not be contacted and, more  
recently to work as hard as possible to ensure that as much data could be  
saved as possible. Thank you.

It may be hard to see data being removed, but we need to step back and look  
at the bigger picture and thank all those involved in ensuring it goes as  
smoothly as possible. By all means feel free to write a "lessons learnt"  
email (of which there are several - visualisation tools not knowing exactly  
how the data will be redacted and weak communication being two), but  
remember OSM is not a large company with paid staff, it relies on your help  
too.


== Looking forward ==

Once the redaction bot has finished there will no doubt be a phase of  
improving the map where data has been removed. After this we have a chance  
to look forward and develop OSM 2013. Much time has been spent on the  
re-licensing and it would be fantastic to keep this momentum going on new  
projects. My personal wish-list would be to help expose the map data as  
much as possible. Ideas include:

* Provide routing on the front page
* Make it easy to users to view the data (eg clicking a node/way could  
bring up data about it - the url and opening hours tags are not visible in  
map renders but is very useful to many end users)
* Improve ease of editing (like wheelmap, a simple editor that lets you  
amend JUST the tags - name, opening hoursm, url etc..). This could be  
linked with my point above.

What's your wish-list?

Regards,
RobJN

[1] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan
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