On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fascinating, I was always taught that reliability was the most important > thing to end users. > > In Ottawa it looks like many footpaths, steps etc will be the big losers. > The imported road network looks fine. > > So it looks like the tools and specialist maps for the disabled, ones that > make use of details mapped by hand about access will be what suffers the > most. > > Do we care about the end users of our maps, who perhaps have come to depend > on them. I suspect the blind community for one will be less embracing of > OSM if its reliability track record is less than perfect. > > Or is it just one of those unplanned things that happens, there seems so > many with OSM.
This is definitely unfortunate :( But at this point I seriously doubt the license change is going to stop (for better or for worse) so here's a proposal: For every message anyone sends to a mailing list about this, also make an attempt to contact a local mapper who has not indicated a decision about the license yet. Lukcily, I think I see two red and 3 orange objects in my city and that's it. So I don't have much to do around here but there are more cities in the area that will see a bigger impact so I will try to track some people down tonight. Toby _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk