On 7 July 2011 15:09, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > FOSMs not going anywhere for some simple reasons. > > The people running it are ineffective, the data will be incompatible when > OSM switches, fosm doesn't have any of the agreements to derive data from > aerial imagery. I could go on, but those are the big ticket items. > > Everyone should be aware of the theater show that 80n is running merely to > disrupt the community, and it's very sad that so far he's been successful. >
Some background... 80n was an original founding member of the OSM Foundation (OSMF). 80n failed to be re-elected to the OSMF board in 2009 [1]. 80n and SteveC fell out awhile back... FOSM is hosted on server resources provided for running OpenStreetMap XAPI [2], all code is written by 80n (or his employees) in GT.M / MUMPS "Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System" (not a fork of the OSM.org codebase as has been claimed). The source code is not (yet) available. After approaching 1 year of operation FOSM has had ~153 account signups. [3] 1: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM09 2: UC San Diego hosted server provided by Telascience.org and OSGeo. 3: http://groups.google.com/group/osm-fork/msg/730068be892ea034 Regards Grant _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au