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I've read the whole article and I don't get what its trying to say. Corpos are not contributing enough? They are contributing too much and thats changing the cu
by aero-glide2 6y ago
I've read the whole article and I don't get what its trying to say. Corpos are not contributing enough? They are contributing too much and thats changing the culture?
- maxerickson 6y agoThere's a fairly large number of long time contributors to OpenStreetMap that only want driveways if they are added with deep passion (I'm like ⅔ serious). There is a real issue where it doesn't make sense for a small volunteer organization to manage a massive amount of data that is not of interest to a broader set of users. It's not a huge issue, because the narrow interests mostly understand the basic issue, there's just not universal agreement about what is broadly useful or not.
- sevenf0ur 6y agoI had the same impression. Amazon moved into our area and someone from their logistics has been contributing a lot to OSM mostly documenting service roads. They have the resources to really add to level of detail of OSM. I see it as a net positive.
- phkahler 6y agoI thought that was the point, everyone improves the part they care most about and in the end we have something very comprehensive. You even get people who care a lot about filling gaps just for the sake of completeness. So long as nobody corrupts the big picture it should be fine.