Carol Kraemer <[email protected]> writes: > This reads as though OSM only wants the GIS community involved if OSM > reaches out to them. I point this out because this is really of great > importance for me to understand about OSM. If OSM does not see GIS as a > community member or potential community member then game over. I've got my
I think this phrasing points out the major disconnect. OSM is a group of people who choose to work together to make OSM better. There are people with a variety of backgrounds. "GIS community" is a bit hard to understand, but I'll take it as the set of people who do GIS/etc. professionally, typically for a government or a mapping company, go to the ESRI UC, obtain a GISP, belong to URISA, etc. So the notion that OSM will interact with the "GIS community" has a connotation of groups interacting with groups, via a memorandum of understanding or something. I can see why you'd use this sort of language, because governments and companies interact this way. Instead, I suggest that you think of this as Are people who consider themselves members of some "GIS community" welcome -- as individuals -- to become members of the OSM community? and the answer in my experience is yes.
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