[OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 23 October 2017, Simon Poole wrote:
> I suspect Christophs issue is more that HOT seems to be claiming
> ownership of "OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping".

Yes, this is one of my points.  The other is that it fails to connect 
the visitor to collaboration and communication within the OSM 
community.  The visitor is invited into what is being presented 
as "OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping" but this whole concept as it 
is being presented on that site seems to be carefully segregated from 
the rest of the OSM community with its communication channels, wiki, 
local communities etc.

No one can forbid HOT to do that but if they do so they IMO should not 
present this under the name OpenStreetMap as "OpenStreetMap 
collaborative mapping" in general or even as pars pro toto.

Or they could rework the site to properly present OpenStreetMap and HOT 
and how they relate to the visitor.  learnosm.org (which i think is 
also mainly built by HOT) shows this is possible to do.

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/