Tobias Knerr wrote: > How about "offer reliable service with good uptimes"? After the recent > maintenance weekend it was stated that our services are not really > intended for the public (at least if they need them and don't just > experiment with them) and we are only about data. If that's still the > case, recommending the use of these services to the public doesn't seem > like a good idea. > You're right that the mapping on openstreetmap.org isn't intended to be a reliable, full-scale service for the general public: It's a showcase and a mapper's tool. The idea is to get other sites to use the data to create the maps they want, rather than just using one set of tiles from us.
To put it another way: We will have succeeded not when the public uses openstreetmap.org instead of Google Maps, but when Google Maps uses OpenStreetMap data instead of Navteq, Teleatlas, or other proprietary data sources. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
