Hi Suchit,
nowhere in the world there are so many visually impaired people as in India. For more than 100 years, most of them use imaginary clocks for orientation purposes and with this get GeoAwareness for directions and angles. Counting steps, they get additional GeoAwareness for locations and distances, having an alternative to lat/lon. The same tools use boy scouts, soldiers, pilots, children, people who can't read maps, illiterate etc. The mentioned tools are doubtless free, open and libre, so why do OSGeo, Geo4all etc. insist on ignoring them? Because it's not software? Because digital clocks are trendy? Because God dictated that the horizon has to be divided into 8 (see UN logo) or 360 directions? Because a convention for such imaginary tools could favor the merit principle? The topic is Geo Awareness Week, that means, education for young consumers. Would you really recommend "here" www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere, Open Location Code www.openlocationcode.com and others just because they are free and open? Do they improve awareness for 1) locations, 2) directions, 3) distances and 4) angles? What about quality and excellence? Now that you're spiritually recharged, I'm sure that we could find an open minded win/win/win level and show that OSGeo/Geo4all aren't closed user groups but open user groups which e. g. also consider visually impaired people. I affirm that the actual black/white criteria concerning openness can cause the following collateral damages: - generate many win/lose products. After 5 years, Munich thinks about abandoning the expensive Linux/Limux. - demotivate to be creative A lose/lose situation. Henrique
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