I think it's mostly because of its popularity and the second thing is that MapMaker seems easier to handle than the OSM editing tools.
I read about this a few minutes ago and as I compared GMaps with OSM i couldn't stand that they mapped the party founding monument more precisely. So I decided to change this. =) 2013/1/29 Johan C <[email protected]> > I still wonder why volunteers would contribute to a closed map instead of > an open map. I agree Google is good in PR for Mapmaker. The question is how > we will have good PR for OSM, with the goal to attract more active mappers. > This might be a challenge for the CWG though. First brainstorm idear from > this non-CWG-er: invite some magazines to compare Mapmaker to OSM > > Cheers, Johan > > Op dinsdag 29 januari 2013 schreef Gregory ([email protected]) > het volgende: > > > > > > > On 29 January 2013 13:03, Pierre Béland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> ok, > >> > >> There is very good Bing imagery over Phyongyang. > >> > >> What do you think, if we define a OSM Task Manager Job and ask OSM > contributors to map this in a few days. Then we write to the media and say > : watch us! > >> > >> > >> Pierre > > > > If you task manager it, post a link and I'll spend tomorrow's lunch > break editing instead of reading about OpenStreetMap! > > Back to work now... > > -- > > Gregory > > [email protected] > > http://www.livingwithdragons.com > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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