Some of the parts about OSM seems to be in the spirit of the project, although I would word some of it a bit differently.
To the extent possible I think we should focus on the positive and avoid negative statements about other projects, or over generalizations about those projects. For example "Your mapping service is a closed system" is both negative and a generalization. There may be some other mapping system service that is also open like OSM that the reader is part of. Perhaps just title that box "Closed Mapping Systems" re: "There multiple collaborative mapping services. Each of them is a direct rival to OpenStreetMap in terms of competing for contributors and map editing contributions. OpenStreetMap is better than any other competitor for one simple and very fundamental reason" This is not necessarily true. For example, a project may capture data that OSM is not interested in, and therefore it is not a direct rival. Mike On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:59 PM, jgpacker <john.pack...@gmail.com> wrote: > I call people to review the wiki page Why OSM and not another collaborative > mapping service?. > link: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Why_OSM_and_not_another_collaborative_mapping_service%3F > > It was written by a single user as a generic page to compare other > collaborative mapping services to OSM. > My issue with this page is that it's not generic at all. > > Am I the only one that thinks this? > > I didn't want to bother with this until it started being recommended > elsewhere in the wiki as official. > > Cheers, > John > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Wiki-Talk-Why-OSM-and-not-another-collaborative-mapping-service-tp5843604.html > Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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