[OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?
Simon Poole
simon at poole.ch
Mon Oct 23 13:42:11 UTC 2017
Am 23.10.2017 um 15:06 schrieb David Groom:
> How about
> 1) Change "OpenStreetmap Collaborative Mapping" to "OpenStreetmap
> Distaster Mapping"
Use of the trademarks shouldn't imply endorsement and/or affiliation
and in the end exclusivity in any form. "A tool to support mapping of
disaster areas in OpenStreetMap" would for example be OK (a bit long but
just to get the point across).
Simon
> 2) Link the word "OpenStreetmap" to the OSM web site
>
> Regards
> David
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" <blake.girardot at hotosm.org
> <mailto:blake.girardot at hotosm.org>>
> To: "Christoph Hormann" <osm at imagico.de <mailto:osm at imagico.de>>
> Cc: "OSM Talk" <talk at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>>
> Sent: 23/10/2017 10:37:38
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?
>
>> 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
>> <mailto: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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>>
>>
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>> Blake Girardot
>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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