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Comment on Lycra and Lasers – A Case Study in Coolness by Association by Fabien

Fabien — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:35:09 +0000

Reckon you should get yourself some of those outfits…would be criminal not to cycle in the required get up.

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by Harry Wood

Harry Wood — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:40:34 +0000

See the wiki page SotM 2010 session: What’s wrong with OSM? Panel discussion for post-event links to videos / write ups / blog responses Currently there's a video shot by Ikiya, but I believe there should've have been a video with better sound quality recorded by the venue people (not released yet, but maybe one day)

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by chaitanya kuber

chaitanya kuber — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:46:15 +0000

The points I would love to see covered are around the topic of usability.

- i think OSM needs a kick arse web interface to show case the power of the OSM data, the kind to compete with the Google Maps to allow folk to search the rich local information OSM has captured.
- someone else mentioned this above, usability of the editors also needs attention
- usability of the data via an api needs attention. cloudmade’s api is a good example but they are commercial organisation and i think OSM needs an api of its own to provide that usability layer

I think usability in these aspects is key to growing OSM beyond the geo geeks to being an option on the table whenever people sit down to discuss their mapping needs in organisations around the world.

Good luck Chris, hope the discussion is fruitful.

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by Chris

Chris — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:08:08 +0000

Perfect, this is going to complete anarchy

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by Jamie Smith

Jamie Smith — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:23:21 +0000

The leadership is exactly what the project needed in 2006. Discuss.

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by unknown

unknown — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:27:00 +0000

The idea of forking off something which is truth if looking at ODbL…
Losing data and very active contributors for gaining an untested new license which moves more rights to a not trustworthy osmfoundation…
Stupid**2

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by Gary Gale

Gary Gale — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:08:51 +0000

Assuming Chris makes it off the stage in one piece after the panel is over, I’d love to see these points covered:

Is OSM Finished?
Is OSM Just About The Map?
To Fork Or Not To Fork?
The Unfortunate License Question?

Too much to cover in a comment so these points are fleshed out in a post over on my blog – http://vtny.org/9C

Shame I won’t be at Girona this year … this will be a humdinger of a panel to participate in and to watch.

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by Harry Wood

Harry Wood — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:00:22 +0000

When I say we want to persuade people using GIS software or google Maps API to move, that’s not really what I meant. I mean persuade them to use OpenStreetMap data, and make sure they feel able to do that easily in whatever system they’re comfortable with. And the point I’m making is, there’s nothing at the core of OpenStreetMap which needs to change to make that happen, but there’s lots of work to do in the periphery. Happily that’s the way the wind is blowing anyway, but we should get more organised about it. Actually an OSGB projected WMS service is perhaps the best concrete I was already of thinking of before you said it James. Very interested to see how that goes.

I can see that this panel discussion could end up being very philosophical: The evils of “top-down control” versus the difficulties of “blind faith in the wiki anarchism”. All quite interesting. I imagine Chris may have to work to keep the discussion anchored to real problems users have.

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by Tom Chance

Tom Chance — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:12:25 +0000

Tagging – the lack of any means of democratic decision making due to a blind faith in the wiki anarchism not shared by any other major open source community leads to daft ambiguities like path / footway. These make maps and the data less usable.

Harry is right about outreach but wrong about making them come to us.

To add to others usability points, the many tools to check data for common faults, differences with public data, missing data, etc. vary in quality and are spread all over the place.

And yes, after five years I miss blank spaces!

Comment on What’s Wrong With OpenStreetMap? by Steven Feldman

Steven Feldman — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:37:42 +0000

From a corporate point of view.

How can I “pay” or “incentivise” completion/coverage in areas I am interested in?
How can I facilitate/initiate capture of attributes I need?
How can i get clarity on the license and what I can do with the data?
etc etc