Apologies for cross-posting... Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Program Manager, Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:14 AM Subject: [Maps-l] "Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble" To: maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org In a blog post by Serge Wroclawski, a long time OpenStreetMap contributor and the founder of the OpenStreetMap US organization, outlines reasons why he believes OSM is in trouble. https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble/ A choice quote. "The first problem that I feel plagues OSM is that the OpenStreetMap Foundation views the mission of the project to provide the world a geographic database, but not geographic services." See also this thread on the OSM-talk mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2018-February/080161.html Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list Maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l