Hi, Dermot McNally wrote: > Clearly every potential user of OSM is different, but for me, a key > benefit when I discovered the project what "hey, vector data, that can > be used for routing!". If we think that others discovering the project > would thing likewise then a prominent path from project home page to a > routing engine (and I really couldn't care less whose) would be a Good > Thing. As long as it works acceptably well, of course...
But isn't this angle one where the open/closed distinction gains weight again? Currently, you can (and I've done this a number of times) tell potential OSM users: "Everything on openstreetmap.org is free software and free data - you can build the exact same site for yourself with all its functionality from our database and our svn" *). With non-free routing or geocoding services that would stop. Bye Frederik *) And add in fine print "if you're willing to devote a few man-months to get to grips with the finer details of Ruby, PHP, Python, PostGIS, Mapnik and others" -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
