On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Andy Allan wrote: > No he's not, and plenty of other people are in agreement here. It's a > question of the point of having a community in OSM (vs a large > collection of uneditable datasets), and you're arguing about technical > stuff. Technical comes second, community first.
And when the community is wrong about stuff, I'm gonna say so. There's a reason why people create generalized interfaces and standard metadata and a common currency and a shared language and a marketplace. There's a reason why traders invented the rule of law before governments ever saw the necessity. Having a "thing" where everybody knows that when you do that "thing", you get to play with the big boys is what prevents centralization; what distributes power; what destroys monopolies. If freedom is important to you, then you also should understand the wisdom of voluntarily giving up some of that freedom in order to cooperate with other people. Sorry if I wax too philosophic here, but I'm a combiner, not a splitter. To my mind there is one and exactly one reason why something should or should not be included in OSM: whether it's copyright-compatible and whether some body wants to add it. Yes, there could be stuff in OSM which is marked edit=fuck-no-you-moron. Could they edit it? Yes. Should they? Only if they want to make enemies. Cooperation is a two-way street. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
