On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turko...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:07:56 +0200, Milo van der Linden wrote: > > > "Making the perfectly rendered map available to the world" is *not* a > > mission goal for the OSMF. The OSMF is primarily responsible for > > maintaining the database and the services related to it. > > Well then OSMF should change their mission to include nice representation > of data also, not to compete with commercial companies just to make > defalut map not suck would be nice ;). > > Note that Justin did not refer to OSMF. Milo brought it up. I thought Justin was addressing the community (a loose association of thousands of volunteers). OSMF has a duty to entice or motivate people to improve the map. That will be easier when the map is pretty. So making a pretty map is a means to an end. I think however that the rendering is pretty enough and that there are a lot of other things that are more important. Perform a simple test: Take someone with a reasonable computer background and ask them to plan their next journey with OSM. Will they be able to locate the places on the map ? Routing ?? After completing the journey, will they be able to register on our site and make the corrections they identified ? How long does it all take ? People value their own time. The good news is that there are a lot of improvements in testing right now. > > > -- > pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt > blog: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com > linux, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless, ronjenje, pametne kuće > registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. > ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turko...@hotmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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