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

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: 2) by isj on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:42AM

    by isj (5249) on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:42AM (#641742) Homepage

    barrier=bollard

    I tried that, but it seemed to have no effect on route planning - still letting cars through.
    It seems that someone recently changed my change to explicitly ending the road and connecting the two roads with a footpath. Hmm.

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