Dair Grant wrote: > showcasing useful and innovative things that have been done with > OSM data is more important than trying to split ourselves into "open" (terms > and conditions will apply) and not.
If it is there to show what can be done with OSM data, it does a very poor job. The only thing it shows is an inferior Google Map clone: pre-rendered tiles that cannot even be configured or modified in any meaningful way. It doesn't help to demonstrate the the advantages of having access to raw map *data* at all. In order to truly show what's possible, we would need to completely redesign that front page into a "featured products" catalogue that could list routing applications, Garmin converters, OSM clocks, renderers, paper maps and so on. This would, of course, include "closed" applications. As it is, that page doesn't really serve the purpose of presenting OSM products. Instead, it presents OSM data *itself* - with features such as changeset list, data layer, XML export, etc.. And for that purpose, we don't need "closed" rendering styles. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
