John Smith wrote: > On 22 February 2010 01:37, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote: > >> Streetbugs encourages people to 'get others to do it' when OSM should be >> encouraging them to 'do it yourself' >> > > While it'd be nice if people would fix any problems themselves, I > don't think OSM's website is at the point where some granny can just > quickly/easily sign up and tweak a few things, there is simply too > many alien concepts for most people to grasp quickly and easily. Find > some random non-technical family member and try and explain it to them > some time. >
Yes, I fully understand the problems, but I think that, in principle, OSM should be encouraging community participation. Streetbugs, as it stands, doesn't do this. > In the mean time if they can quickly explain the problem people could > explain to the person reporting it how to fix it. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk