[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

[Christoph Hormann]

On Saturday 28 October 2017, Éric Gillet wrote:
> [...] OSM is a do-o-cracy; blaming people
> (especially people investing a lot of time) for their implication is
> not the way to go.

A quick note - since i think it is important to make this distinction:

Mapping in OSM is based on do-o-cratic principles, always subject to the 
basic principles of mapping we have of course 
(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_We_Map).

But the OSM wiki as a meta-project for documenting and communicating 
about mapping is not a do-o-cracy on its own.  You cannot simply invest 
a lot of time in the wiki and expect your ideas about how things are 
supposed to be there to supersede those of others, especially those who 
might not spend so much time on the wiki but on other OSM related 
things and who rightfully expect to be able to use the wiki for those 
activities.  The wiki is a means to facilitate better mapping and 
social interaction between mappers, not a platform to express yourself 
independent of that.

This is not meant to put blame on anyone here but i would suggest 
everyone to evaluate things under the question if what the different 
people desire and argue for has a clear benefit for OSM and the OSM 
community beyond the wiki itself.

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