Related to this, I wondered if the WMF could be interested in this request for support https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/02/19/osmf-request-for-proposals-data-ce...
Regards, Stefano
2018-02-23 18:14 GMT+01:00 Chris Koerner ckoerner@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
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