On 10 Oct 2008, at 07:06, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > elvin ibbotson wrote: >> Steve, >> >> It looks like fakeSteveC or someone is pretending to be you and >> posting >> elitist, patronising, condescending rubbish in an apparent attempt to
I'll take elitism over populism or relativism. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03352.html >> make you look foolish. I look forward to it being demonstrated that >> 'most people don't know what coordinates are'. >> >> elvin ibbotson > > "Most people" is not: > > Most people on this mailing list > Most people who contribute to OSM > Most people involved in GIS > Most people who know some programming > > "Most people" is the man, woman or child in the street, many of whom > will never have picked up a paper map, and will certainly never have > tried to take coordinates from one. > > Got a printed UK Road Map? Open it to any page -- where are the > coordinates? +1 I'm all for lat/lng to be a user-enabled display option, but it's delusional to think that most people on the planet care and I personally want most people on the planet using our maps. Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk