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OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the uncharted-territory dept.

islisis writes:

Serge Wroclawski, a long-time contributor to OpenStreetMap, has posted a criticism of the management choices he believes are preventing the OpenStreetMap Foundation from fulfilling its mission (much like the Wikimedia Foundation):

I feel the OpenStreetMap project is currently unable to fulfill that mission due to poor technical decisions, poor political decisions, and a general malaise in the project. I'm going to outline in this article what I think OpenStreetMap has gotten wrong. It's entirely possible that OSM will reform and address the impediments to its success- and I hope it does. We need a Free as in Freedom geographic dataset.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:37AM (#641741)

    A few of the points mentioned are the database design, and I suspect most people here know that major database design changes are not something you just do.

    The rest are complaints that the OpenStreetMap project doesn't spend as much money as Wikimedia foundation. Such as the one about not wanting other projects to leech on their server traffic. If you have millions like Wikimedia Foundation, this wouldn't be a problem, but OpenStreetMap is a comparably small project and server traffic gets expensive.