Hi, On 3 February 2012 00:39, Martin Holmgren <[email protected]> wrote: > Good luck at the meeting, it will be very interesting to hear the World > Bank's reasons for choosing Google as partner over OSM.
I hear everyone complaining about this decision, and me I'd also like everyone to just partner with OSM and never with Google, but in the end I can understand their position. They're not choosing Google over OSM, they're trying to use all tools that are available to fight poverty. OSM is one tool, GMM is another. GMM has some an undeniable advantage, its popularity. The other day Frederik wrote a message in a thread about some data import in a HOT activation, saying something like "if the goal is to help build OSM community in that area, then this may be the wrong way". I thought "duh... no, Frederik, the goal is to help rescuers on the ground save lives". Now HOT is on the other side of the argument. World Bank is doing something that in the long term may damaging to world's free data but right now it's helping fight poverty. Cheers _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
