On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:53, Floris Looijesteijn <[email protected]> wrote:
I know you're probably not a native English speaker (neither am I), and I don't mean the following as some tirade against your innocent no doubt well-meaning suggestion, but as a commentary on how we deal with data users like nearmap and others in general. > If you could also fix the StreetMap and OpenStreetMaps texts this website > will be a excellent addition to OSM. I don't think it "will be", I think it already *is* an excellent addition to OSM. When someone uses the OSM data they really have to do quite little. They just have to embed the data and make sure their users know about the OSM license terms. Nearmap has clearly done this. How these users do things like label the tabs under which OSM appears is completely outside our purview. I'm happy to leave the decision of whether they call the tab in which some OSM data appears "StreetMap", "OpenStreetMap" or "BlaghBlgah" to them. (I'm no designer, but I think they're going for a homogeneity between "Photo" and "Street" (where "OpenStreet" would confuse the layman)) Let's try not to subject OSM data users to death by a thousand self-appointed license nitpickers. Having guidelines and suggestions is great. But we shouldn't make users feel like they're somehow second class, or not trying quite hard enough, just because they don't do any number of things someone thinks they should be doing. OSM will do much better in the long term if we keep that sort of friction to a minimum and welcome new OSM users without subtly suggesting that they do minor or major redesigns of their sites to make OSM more prominent. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
