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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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OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:18PM
the freemium model strikes again. it's just a shortcut to thinking that ensures long term problems. they should have figured out a way to have a fully open model. these days you could incorporate blockchain tech. OSM could have it's own coin. the client software could have governance, and other features built in. no centralized server farms needed. end users could receive coin for serving data. etc, etc.