Hi, SteveC wrote: > http://opengeodata.org/new-design-concept-for-openstreetmaporg
Whatever merits the (external, commercial) uservoice.com service might have, I am extremely sceptical about using it for openstreetmap.org. "Join companies & organisations of all sizes that already depend on UserVoice for feedback (Sun, Nokia, Random House, Sony BMG, Myspace.com)". I don't envisage OSM being like these in any way. Our problem is not that granny doesn't find the feedback button; if we have a problem then it is that we do not have the time and patience to deal with her suggestions. What this external service (where people can write up ideas and others can vote them up or down) would do is create another league of "Wiki fiddlers", only with less understanding of OSM. It would give a nice outward impression, but it wouldn't change the amount of resources we have available to deal with suggestions from outsiders. In the end, it would only frustrate people when they see that their suggestions don't get implemented. We do not suffer from a lack of ideas regarding cool things that could be improved about OSM. If we suffer from a lack of ideas at all then it might be ideas on how to implement something without breaking things or overloading servers, i.e. well-founded technical ideas that require intricate knowledge of how OSM works. uservoice.com will not help there. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
