Hi, Dave F. wrote: > If the consumers had to do less work then OSM would get *more* > consumers. Which is half the point of the exercise, isn't it?
Stop thinking in these terms, they don't work for OSM. The data OSM has to offer has a reasonable value; depending on who the "customer" is, using OSM data can save them tens of thousands of whatever currency unit you like. There's a strong motivation - these users will come to OSM even if OSM isn't presented to them on a silver platter. On the other side we have the mappers who do not save, or earn, any money from OSM, and the programmers and server admins and everyone who uses their spare time to create and run OSM. If you continue talking about OSM as a product and users as customers, then you'll soon arrive at "the customer is always right" and we contributors will then be mere "service providers". But things are just the other way round in OSM. The mapper is always right, and whether or not the user wants to use what the mapper provides, that's his choice. The user can always go for Teleatlas instead if he doesn't like what he sees. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
