[OSM-talk] Request to share survey of user participation in OSM

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Aug 30, 2022, 13:24 by marc_marc at mailo.com:

> Le 25.08.22 à 19:25, Guilherme Spinoza Andreo a écrit :
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>> c) The concept of "wiki map" pertains to the way OSM's wiki-style collaborative editing software.
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> OpenStreetMap have a geo-database.
> OpenStreetMap have a wiki, to store/share/edit the doc.
> but a "a wiki map" means nothing, you mix 2 thing.
> feel free to go to www.openstreetmap.org and clid edit to see one
> of the ways to edit geographic data, it's not a wiki-like edit.
> wiki-style collaborative editing software is for the doc, not
> for the map/geo-data
>
Depends on what you consider as core of "wiki-like"

Collaborative editing of many people? Then it fits

Text based interface? Then no

Personally, I sometimes describe OSM like "like Wikipedia, but it is a map"
which is inaccurate in many ways, but may be good approximation
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