Frederik Ramm wrote: > as an OSM community member, I'm taking offence at the > following article:
That article can indeed generate some unfortunate misinterpretations, but as you admit, it's hard to control what journalists write about you. Still, your first instinct is to attack Steve and Cloudmade. Unfortunately, this matches a pattern of your previous posts. What is the outcome you expect? That Steve should step down and leave you as heir of OpenStreetMap? That doesn't sound very likely. Do you have a goal, a strategy? Or is your frustration based on Geofabrik being a competitor to Cloudmade that has been far less successful in its marketing? If you asked the same journalist to interview you about Geofabrik, that would have a much better effect for the public understanding of OpenStreetMap's role than your current rants. It would immediately become clear that there is more than one company that can make money out of OpenStreetMap's data. How should Wikipedia explain to the public that uploaded photos may be reused commercially? The French Wikipedia has the answer: They made a contract with a printer, so you can order prints for a fee and have them mailed ot your home, http://wikiposter.fr/ A commercial offering says more than a thousand words. > "Coast says the goal is to give away the mapping data for free > and charge for services." This indeed seems to be Steve's goal. He uses OpenStreetMap for the first part and Cloudmade for the second. If the journalist had only changed from Cloudmade to Steve's name in the second sentence, the article would have been much better: Steve Coast hopes to do the same (that Wikipedia has done) for maps. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
