On 11 June 2010 08:34, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > I posted this idea as an off-topic message in a thread about the post office > in talk-us, but I thought it might get more interest over here on t...@... > What if we came up with a way to make POI collection a competition or game? > Think foursquare/gowalla's "checkins" mixed in with something > likeĀ http://www.poi-factory.com/. It could be generic enough to encompass
eric raymond has written an insightful piece on why this sort of thing doesn't work well in open source type projects, as a chapter of this essay: http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ creating competition in this way can be disruptive to the community, by encouraging people to work in isolation, amongst other things _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk