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I hope your post won't end up being so generalist as this comment is. OSM is the best freely available map service in Germany. Many (if not all?) local and nat
by aluhut 9y ago
I hope your post won't end up being so generalist as this comment is.
OSM is the best freely available map service in Germany. Many (if not all?) local and national institutions use it as well as many private companies.
The mobile apps got really nice and are useful for normal users for different purposes and all that for free.
There are even apps everybody can use to fill the data gaps like: https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete
It needs some kind of pretty hard decadence (or corruption?) to ignore that for such a broad generalization.
- emacsen 9y ago> I hope your post won't end up being so generalist as this comment is. If I was going to write a simple one sentence or one paragraph analysis of why the project is not living up to its expectations, it would be easy and I would be done. Instead, I'm writing an in depth analysis of what I view as the impediments to the project;s success, and it's taking me several weeks to write because it's such a complex topic. I need to explain not only the problems to seasoned OSMers, but also make my arguments understandable and accessible to a wider audience who isn't familiar with OSM internals. It's also important to relaize that I'm not writing this from the same position as so many newbies writing about OSM- they go to the website and say "Oh this is ugly" or "This is confusing" then leave. I was very much part of the project for quite a few years, in a number of roles.
- emacsen 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394604