[OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Hans De Kryger <hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  I think the reason most long time mappers don't communicate the mistake
> the was made to new mapper
> ​s​
>  is
> ​ the fact that where​
>  afraid of getting into a long drawn out conversation with them or it
> turning into a disagreement and
> ​
> end
> ​ing​
>  up nowhere. Just two frustrated mappers. I would like to point out a case
> in point. There's a mapper whose page a ran across that said "All emails to
> me will immediately be deleted without being read."Now how do we communicate
> ​​
> when we have mappers who feel that way
> ​ in the community​
>  It's hard.
> ​​
>

Given a rather high profile and protracted example of this in which I was
unfortunately a party to, the question begs to be asked:  *do we even
want *people
who are unwilling to communicate with the rest of the project they're
contributing to?
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