The purpose of OSM is to **map** the world.
If this brings about positive change such as the things you mentioned
(any many more), that's good and that is the reason why many people
contribute to such a free wiki world map.
This is a huge difference to your statement! You seem to defend that OSM
should be used as a tool to change language, for politically motivated
reasons in this case.
OSM is as much about change as science, FOSS or wikipedia is about
change. Who would trust wikipedia as a reliable source if their mission
was to "bring about (political) change"?
In my book, furthering political or social ideologies does not even fall
remotely under the mission of OSM. I dearly hope it stays this way.
Tobias
On 21/10/2020 09:49, Rory McCann wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, at 6:25 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
(4) I would prefer to not use OSM as a tool
to change language, especially if done at
cost of making more complicated for
mappers. AFAIK term "man made" and it's
meaning remains standard and is well
understood
The purpose of OSM is to change the world. We're trying to create a map of the
world, build by enthusiastic local people and to give it away to everyone for
free. We're trying to produce a geo commons for every person. It's too late to
say that OSM shouldn't change anything in the world. 🙂
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