Hey! Why not reconfigure mapnik to render the US boundary polygon with a black fill during the sopablackout?
Would send a message without influencing HOT ;) Sven This message was sent from my smartphone, thus I ask you to forgive me typos and my briefness On 17.01.2012, at 00:25, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wikipedia, I imagine, has a large following of users that are unaware > of SOPA; their blackout will introduce the issue to an enormous number > of Internet users. I don't think an OSM blackout would have a similar > effect. > > Many map nerds would no doubt be inconvenienced, however. > > Joseph > > > > > > 2012/1/16 Matthias Meißer <dig...@arcor.de>: >> Hi, >> >> first of all, sorry for bringing political discussions to the community, as >> I always understand OSM as a political neutral space (we do creating maps, >> nothing else). >> But some of you might noticed that _Wikipedia will make a downtime_ at >> Wednesday as a form of protest against the Stop Piracy Act (SOPA) >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA >> >> As this law endangers the creation and exchange of free material, too >> ('shutdown OSM/jamendo/.../ as it seems that they copied my property!'), I >> would like to ask, if we might support the wikipedia action? >> >> I have no idea, if this could be technicaly done by the Admins, or what kind >> of protest (complete shutdown, serving demo tiles, locking database, ... a >> banner) would be accepted by the most of us. I just like to notify you, and >> maybe start a discussion. >> >> thanks >> Matthias >> (user:!i!) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
