On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Nop <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that GMM can be a serious competition to OSM if it is simpler > to use, easier to learn and thus more inviting to the casual newcomer. >
I'm still not convinced that "competition" is the proper term for it. > With GMM you have one way of mapping a simple item e.g. a bicycle track. > Everybody can do it in ten minutes, no questions arise. > > With OSM you have two major tools, a huge load of tags, a wiki, a forum, > several mailing lists, three different answers to the question, long > discussions, pages of contradictory documentation, plenty of old > discussions and after working through all this, you realize that the > question has not been resolved yet. > Only if you care. If you want simple, you click edit on potlatch, you draw the way, you click on the car until it turns into a bicycle, and you select "cycle track". Then those of us on the mailing list write 1000 emails about whether or not you were right, but you probably don't even notice it.
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