On 11 April 2011 20:14, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course, its not about the license at all - if you appeal to fans of > licenses you'll attract nobody. Google will take potential users by > providing an awesome end product; the sort if thing everyone can appreciate. > Make some awesome mapping products and you'll attract plenty of contributors > and you'll be able to leave licensing talk to the nerds, presumably just as > Google plans. > > Agreed. Most OSMers don't care about the license so why would people in the developing world?
Being critical of Google serves no purpose. They aren't forcing people to contribute to their products. gmaps is cool and everybody uses it so people naturally want to see their street, business, etc. on there. We should concentrate on making OSM a better competitor. A couple of things I can think of: - Why do so many people create OSM accounts but then just do a few edits or none at all? How about a poll directed to those people to try and get to the root of the problem? Is it the editors or the help available or something else? - A lot of effort has gone into making Potlatch and JOSM the powerful tools that they are but if you are in a developing country with just a mobile phone or a low spec laptop with a crappy internet connection they are going to suck. How would someone in that situation contriibute to OSM? Kevin
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