[OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

[Simon Poole]

This seems a bit of an odd time to announce a schism and I'm sure you
didn't intend for your statement to come across as it just did.

While rabid anti-OSMers are gaining more power and influence in HOT and
MM, I do assume that the majority of the HOT and MM communities are not
falling in to the trap of believing their own marketing copy and realize
that they are a small minority in the larger OSM community and are
dependent on the good will and support of the wider OSM community to
make a difference.

Simon

Am 19.11.2015 um 14:28 schrieb Kate Chapman:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> The flaw with this logic is that people in HOT are not participating
> in the OSM community. Is the OSM community to remain static and
> "conventions" made years ago may never change? Do we not have the same
> goal of a free map of the entire world?
>
> -Kate
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Christoph Hormann
> <chris_hormann at gmx.de <mailto:chris_hormann at gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     On Thursday 19 November 2015, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>     >
>     > #MissingMaps #hotosm-project-12345 Lubumbashi, Congo (DRC)
>     > #100mapathons #OSMGeoWeek
>     >
>     > This is *not* useful.
>
>     But to be fair this is not only the fault of the mappers but also
>     of the
>     HOT project managers since they specifically instruct mappers to use
>     such changeset comments.
>
>     Generally the HOT project mapping instructions contain a lot of things
>     that are questionable from the viewpoint of the OSM community. 
>     IMO HOT
>     needs to make sure these comply with the OSM conventions, for example
>     by sourcing these instructions from the OSM wiki and allowing the OSM
>     community to provide input and fixes this way.
>
>     --
>     Christoph Hormann
>     http://www.imagico.de/
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