HOT will probably never find a formulation of our mission and tools that satisfies the entire OSM community. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
My two cents: How about a simple blurb describing and linking to OSM on the About page? And perhaps the title banner could be rephrased to “Collaborative Mapping of OpenStreetMap”? On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:28 PM Blake Girardot HOT/OSM < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > We can not win if we do or if we do not :) > > It clearly says the HOT Tasking Manager, which it is. We were asked to > change it from OSM Tasking Manager because people felt that was > misrepresenting, it was not the OSM Tasking manager, it was HOT's > Tasking Manager, so I changed that in TM v2. > > And the major emphasis on "OpenStreetMap Collaborative Mapping" is > exactly because people also said we did not put OpenStreetMap > prominently enough. Now it is the biggest thing on the page and that > is not right either :) > > It doesn't say "HOT Collaborative Mapping" because people are not HOT > mapping, they are OSM mapping. > > But, I think we are happy to change that title on that page to > something else if the community feels it is somehow misrepresenting > something. > > Respectfully, > blake > > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Christoph Hormann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I recently turned up on the HOT tasking manager page > > (http://tasks.hotosm.org/) and found the page is now presenting itself > > tautologically as an "OpenStreetMap Collaborative Mapping" portal with > > no indication except for the small logo on top that this is a separate > > project with no official character. At the same time it seems (at a > > first glance) there is not a single link on the site to OpenStreetMap. > > To the visitor unfamiliar with OSM this is quite likely to generate the > > impression that this is OSM and that contributing to "OpenStreetMap > > Collaborative Mapping" always happens via HOT tasks. > > > > In my eyes this is a fairly clear misrepresentation of OpenStreetMap not > > covered by the trademark policy we now have. > > > > -- > > Christoph Hormann > > http://www.imagico.de/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > Blake Girardot > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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