I actually think it's fine Frederik has opinions about how we should do things around here in the US and shares them. I just don't want to be called a couch potato in the course of it ;-)
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 04/03/2015 02:41 AM, stevea wrote: >> >> >> It seems to me that in the USA, what people think about OSM is one of >> these two: >> >> (a) A project for hackers and couch potatoes who trawl their county web >> pages and other sources to look for stuff they could "upload" to OSM >> (because it's such a big country and nobody could possibly, yadda yadda >> yadda) >> >> (b) A project for people who roll up their sleeves, travel to places of >> humanitarian crises, and help those in need by creating maps where the >> government hasn't done their job well. >> >> > Wow Frederik, > > In your post related to one of your pet-peeves about the US OSM community > you managed to stumble across one of MY PET PEEVES! > > Honestly I have a hard time with people who spend a lot of time on the > country specific mailing lists telling people that live, are from or often > travel to a specific country or area what OSM is to them. If I'm correct > you have never lived in the US, you have never spent significant time in > the US, you have no plans to move to the US or any other particular > interest, right? So why do you come over to talk-US and tell the people > that do all of those things what OSM should be to them? > > If we want a free map of the entire world we should all be free to make > our own meaning out of OpenStreetMap. That is of course within the > boundaries of the license. > > Signed, > > Someone who has mapped her neighborhood by hand, imported data and > traveled to places of humanitarian crisis all with OSM. Additionally I > live and am from the US. > > -Kate > > P.S. Specific to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and your suggestion > that it is mostly people from the US. That is simply not the case. HOT's > new current board is 7 people and only one is from the US. I also suspect > our contributors are more from a few countries in Europe than anywhere > else. > > > >> >> Bye >> Frederik >> >> -- >> Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc.
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