[OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

[Tom Taylor]

Below.

On 04/02/2013 10:13 PM, Robin Paulson wrote:
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>
> when you say "the project", you imply the people who contribute can be
> fashioned into a unity. i am fundamentally against that, it is flawed
> thinking. we are a multitude [1], not a singular, and thus we cannot be
> represented by anything less than ourselves.

I find this supremely ironic, given that we are talking about the 
organization of a mapping project. After all, the whole idea of mapping 
is that you can't represent everything and have to choose what details 
to omit. In the same way, it is necessary to abstract from all the 
details of participants' interests if any coherence is to be given to 
the project as a whole.

Tom Taylor