Hi Andrzej, My issue with the agreement is I think it is short-sighted. Maybe it will "alleviate poverty" now, but will it stifle economic growth later? Is the decision a short-term gain which has really long term consequences?
Personally I could care less of the World Bank "partners" with OSM or anyone else. I do care that they adopt and follow policies of using actual open-data licenses. Best, -Kate On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:41 AM, andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
