I know that OSM is the place that 'You too can be an Anarchist' (just like everyone else...) ,but after watching discussions on roads, sea marks, addresses, etc. I feel like the OSM community is missing opportunities to leverage individual data contributions when they can't all be tied together in a coherent way.
In the end, it would be nice if there were standards that most of the people would follow. I think that when most of us started mapping, we looked for the 'official' way to tag things and would have been happy to follow that standard. Some people with always say, 'F! you, you can't tell me how to map'. And they are right and have a proper place in OSM. But, I think that many people see the value of standards and see how it facilitates the creation of innovative and productive applications/products based on OSM data, and they would be willing to follow standards. David. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Malcolm Herring <malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com> wrote: > I found a wonderful motto at the top of the user page of one of the OSM > system administrators, TomH: > > "I don't give a flying monkey's for tag voting, automatic changebots, > endless discussions, categories, or any of that crap, but prefer to get on > and actually do stuff." > > This echoes my sentiments exactly! > > So, I will take my leave of this thread and spend more time writing code & > stylesheets for the OSeaM project. > > Bye! > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
