[OSM-talk] Being more like Wikipedia (was: OpenStreetMap Future Look)

[pavithran]

On 10 January 2013 02:41, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
> Scenarios where people are going to get upset over OpenStreetMaps are considerably fewer than ones where people get upset with Wikipedia. (In fact, when people do get upset about maps, they'll usually get upset with Wikipedia too. At WikiConference India, members of the nationalist BJP protested because of Wikipedia's map and description of the situation in Kashmir.*)

Though offtopic , the same group also has another set of gang or
groups which vandalises the wikipedia articles and you can hardly see
any political articles on India with NPOV ( Neutral Point Of View)
because a major group of editors come from a certain group and are
well versed with all kinds of rules which wikipedia editors use to
remove/revoke/edit an article .

Coming to mapping in India , Kashmir might be the one border issue
where  "International territory "  and "line of Control" are two
different lines and can be interpreted by various cartographers  in
whatever way it pleases them .  Google maps India doesnt even show the
line of control , google maps US shows it as a dotted line , OSM shows
it as bordder .

I would admit the fact that OSM is not that popular ( atleast in
India) that people who vandalise articles in wikipedia havent yet
started . Lets say it to the advantage of the tools being hard to use
even for the wikipedia editor , also would be the other fact that
there is less data here(India) for them to seriously consider OSM as a
map which needs to be checked up / bothered with .   Google enjoys the
complete dominant position with people fighting editor wars in
mapmaker .

Personally am I waiting for a surge of mappers ? No I am not , I would
rather see a surge in mapping and effective usage of tags , hopefully
which the future editors could clearly include some 2 minutes of
tagging tutorial .

Regards,
Pavithran


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