2011/2/1 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> who is "OSM" and how can they make "actual choices between different >> uses of the data"? > > Good questions. My rough guess would be "the people who contribute > data to the OSM database"
+1 > and "by having debates, developing policies, > and encouraging people to respect the policies". -1 > Wikipedia went through this. yes, and in the German Wikipedia there are for some time strict policies which lead to a lot of trouble, resulting in a situation where many contributers were frustrated by the bureaucracy and decided not to contribute any more. IMHO the strength of OSM is it's freedom and flexibility. I wouldn't like to loose this in favor of more bureaucracy and policies. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
