-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frederik Ramm wrote: | Hi, | | the similarities between OSM and Wikipedia are many, and easily | spotted. In fact, we owe a lot of our success to Wikipedia as a "trail | blazer" - if I tell someone "we're like a Wikipedia for maps", that | saves me about 5 minutes explaining. | | However, there are also many conceptual differences between our | respective projects, and I would like to list a few of these that I've | been thinking about lately. | | I believe that some people are very quick to simply transfer "lessons | learned" from Wikipedia onto OSM, sometimes without properly taking into | account that while there are similarities, there are also lots of | differences. | | 1. One World | | 2. Commercially Valuable Product | | 3. Not an End Product
I agree with this strongly, and believe it's worth mentioning that in all 3 aspects, MusicBrainz and possibly dmoz.org and similar projects are a lot closer to us than Wikipedia is. voxforge.org is also building something interesting which will have similar issues to us. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiPANAACgkQz+aYVHdncI1UvwCgmp79bz+Q3WJlYXfs2Vxi+KXz nmQAoKRFHkIL6I44DXdPu6TZrrZaETUC =nWmh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
