[OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

Christoph Hormann osm at imagico.de
Mon Oct 23 17:04:51 UTC 2017


On Monday 23 October 2017, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote:
>
> 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.

As i said in the previous discussion about this the name "OSM Tasking 
manager" to me seems perfectly fine as a name for the tool in general. 

My critique here is about this instance of the tool running as a public 
service and containing the tasks of the HOT project.

I have no specific suggestion about the heading/catchphrase but there 
were already a few ideas mentioned by others in what direction this 
could go.  Independent of that prominently linking to learnosm.org (or 
a different page explaining OSM and providing relevant links) on the 
starting page (like with a second button next to "Start Mapping") would 
be good.

In addition i would suggest to add

* links to openstreetmap.org (and OSM wiki, communication channels) from 
the About and Learn pages.
* a disclaimer according to the trademark policy on the About page.
* adding at least brief verbal credits to OSM - for example like 
Frederik cited from Missing Maps - to the starting page somewhere.

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



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