[OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

[Robert Banick]

HOT will probably never find a formulation of our mission and tools that
satisfies the entire OSM community. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t
try.

My two cents: How about a simple blurb describing and linking to OSM on the
About page? And perhaps the title banner could be rephrased to
“Collaborative Mapping of OpenStreetMap”?

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:28 PM Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <
blake.girardot at hotosm.org> wrote:

> Hi Christoph,
>
> We can not win if we do or if we do not :)
>
> It clearly says the HOT Tasking Manager, which it is. We were asked to
> change it from OSM Tasking Manager because people felt that was
> misrepresenting, it was not the OSM Tasking manager, it was HOT's
> Tasking Manager, so I changed that in TM v2.
>
> And the major emphasis on "OpenStreetMap Collaborative Mapping" is
> exactly because people also said we did not put OpenStreetMap
> prominently enough. Now it is the biggest thing on the page and that
> is not right either :)
>
> It doesn't say "HOT Collaborative Mapping" because people are not HOT
> mapping, they are OSM mapping.
>
> But, I think we are happy to change that title on that page to
> something else if the community feels it is somehow misrepresenting
> something.
>
> Respectfully,
> blake
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> >
> > I recently turned up on the HOT tasking manager page
> > (http://tasks.hotosm.org/) and found the page is now presenting itself
> > tautologically as an "OpenStreetMap Collaborative Mapping" portal with
> > no indication except for the small logo on top that this is a separate
> > project with no official character.  At the same time it seems (at a
> > first glance) there is not a single link on the site to OpenStreetMap.
> > To the visitor unfamiliar with OSM this is quite likely to generate the
> > impression that this is OSM and that contributing to "OpenStreetMap
> > Collaborative Mapping" always happens via HOT tasks.
> >
> > In my eyes this is a fairly clear misrepresentation of OpenStreetMap not
> > covered by the trademark policy we now have.
> >
> > --
> > Christoph Hormann
> > http://www.imagico.de/
> >
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