[OSM-talk] Introducing SwiftAddress, an highly efficient way of collecting housenumbers

[Yves]

Simon,
There is a difference between starting from scratch and joining an existing project. In skills, true, but also in motivation.
While I get an understanding of your editor market share concerns, it is possibly not the first thing that comes to mind when somebody plan to use its free time in OSM dev.
Having fun is important, receiving nice feedback being part of that. 
Yves 





Le 23 janvier 2021 21:15:52 GMT+01:00, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> a écrit :
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>Am 23.01.2021 um 13:13 schrieb Yves:
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>> Le 23 janvier 2021 11:20:19 GMT+01:00, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> a écrit :
>>> I don't quite understand why, outside of a specialized keyboard, you are
>>> reinventing the wheel
>> The pleasure of building something from the ground up, joy of developing an App, maybe?
>> I hope you did not forgot it, Simon.
>> A wealthy environment should be more welcoming to new players.
>> Yves
>
>There are
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>- limited edits to go around
>
>- limited developer time to go around
>
>- limited user interest and attention.
>
>The more fragmented the OSM app market place the more and more difficult 
>it gets to have a viable number of users, yes every new app takes away 
>edits from the existing  apps (and no, the rising tide analogy does not 
>apply here). At least for all non-commercially developed OSM software 
>this would seem to be the only metric to indicate if investing the 
>required work makes sense or not. Of the roughly 30 editing apps, only 9 
>have a share of more than 1% of the total user market (roughly 3'000 
>contributors in absolute numbers) and for the rest it falls off really 
>quickly. And while you could admire people that carry on maintaining an 
>app for 40 users, there is no denying that it doesn't make sense for OSM 
>as a whole at all.
>
>This is not an argument against change and improvements, but about 
>leaving ones ego aside and investing the time and effort in to bettering 
>existing applications. BTW just as I did when I decided to invest time 
>in to improving an existing app, instead of creating a new one.
>
>This doesn't apply just to editing software, it is (somewhat driven by 
>the nature of OSM and historically little central software development) 
>rampant all over the place, for example notoriously geocoding software 
>where there seems to be at leas a couple of new entrants every year 
>which then go away again just as fast.
>
>Simon
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