[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 211, Issue 14

[Andy Townsend]

On 22/03/2022 10:29, St Niklaas wrote:

> The basic questions here are why a change, who started it, in which 
> period took the presentation place, was there a (s)election of idea's 
> within the community ?
>
The change was necessary because the software used for (in particular) 
the help site is no longer supported.  The admins have done an awful lot 
of work just to "keep the lights on" there. There has been a significant 
amount of discussion, particularly over the last couple of years, over 
what to do about it; see e.g. 
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/149 and 
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/377 .

In the forum, a thread has been running for a couple of years too: 
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=68929 .

I suggest that you have a read of those links to understand why we are 
where we are.


> My life rule in OSM is reading kills a mapper, so dont read and go out 
> to survey. 

Whilst I agree that it's simply not possible to read _everything_ 
written around and about OSM, you can't then complain "why wasn't I 
consulted?" when discussion has been ongoing and decisions made over the 
course of a couple of years.

Best Regards,

Andy


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