[Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On 25.08.2013 11:58, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
> Bear in mind that OSM is a community such as we are, with its own
> habits and ideas. The idea of OSM is to have everything in one databse
> which structure is very open. You can actually put there almost
> everything which can be connected with the points, lines or areas and
> exist on our mother Earth. See:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
> 
> You can also propose a new features to be added to the official OSM
> database schema. It is disussed by OSM community in similar way as a
> new ideas in Wikipedia.
> 
>  OSM has actually its own API which is free to use:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6
> 
> It can be used both for creating new tools for editing of OSM as we as
> creating new functionalities based on OSM data.
> 
> 
> 

Allow me a stupid question on this thread, but why is the existing 
OSM-based solution employed by several language versions of Wikivoyage 
not good enough?

Cheers
Yaroslav