Hi, On 04/04/2015 07:20 PM, Simon Poole wrote: >> I just don't want to be called a couch potato in the course of it ;-)
> Seriously, I believe Frederik was more referring to how OSM is viewed by > third parties Indeed. I don't have much exposure to US Americans outside of OSM but in the few interactions like that I had, if people did have any conception about OSM it usually fell into one of the two categories I mentioned - either "OSM the hacker project to re-purpose government data" or "OSM the humanitarian project". I always put it down to people in the USA traditionally having much freer access to data their government has collected (viz. TIGER) and therefore more likely to respond to "hey, here's people finally making their own map" with a shrug than with enthusiasm. Creating that enthusiasm is a huge challenge (anyone remember CloudMade's ambassadors?) and in my opinion, every time someone says "ah we don't have to map this and that, we can take that data from <third party source>", the enthusiasm dampens a bit. Because who wants to be seen doing something that might turn out not to be necessary? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us