[OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

[Lester Caine]

On 29/06/18 16:27, Carlos Cámara wrote:
> Second: The very foundations of OSM as a project are techno-political in 
> terms that it was created to overcome the lack of certain geographical 
> information about certain areas or topics. This is even more obvious in 
> HOSM or the not-at-all-accidental use of open licenses from its very 
> beginning.

Yes and No ... 'the map' is NOT the project ... the raw data is. I find 
it difficult to use the current style of the SAMPLE map provided simply 
because it gets the road colours wrong now. So I'm using a source of map 
tiles that use a more UK friendly colour set. The bottom line is that 
what is displayed on the map is already in conflict with many uses 
ignoring adding any additional censoring. What SHOULD be done is provide 
our own versions of the map for our own applications, as wikipedia is 
doing with names (although I can't see how to access them). Whether 
something has it's own icon is not a political decision - everything 
should have an icon - but the PRIORITY of displaying should be a 
non-political decision - not censorship!

Moving to a more interactive map would be a positive step, rather than 
the continual churn of 'views of what is important' on a single static 
map and I know the technology is there, just not the resources to 
generate it?

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