Simon PooleAug 11, 2023

The downsides of being frugal.

The #OpenStreetMap Foundation spends, even with a slightly more ambitious budget this year than previously, less than %1 of what WMF/Wikipedia does, but is struggling to make ends meet.

There is no threat a la the infamous Wikipedia ads that the project will shut down, but without the funds activities will have to be cut back significantly.

If you consider OSM valuable consider https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/

OpenStreetMap Foundation – Supporting the work of the OpenStreetMap project

Show threadDashtopAug 13, 2023
@simon I have attempted to edit OSM and it's absolutely unbearable. Unless they actually improve their tool significantly to be on par with GMap or Street Complete or actually offer a usable map instead of a map editor, I can't deal with them.
Show threadSimon Poole
@Dashtop as GIS tools go, iD (the online editor) is considered to be quite user friendly. The intricacies of the subject matter however can't all be abstracted away and tools like StreetComplete don't allow you to change "everything" so that isn't a fair comparison.
Aug 13, 2023 at 11:14amWeb
Show threadDashtopAug 13, 2023
@simon no it isn't. And that rawness contributes to not being very friendly to new editors.
Show threadSimon PooleAug 13, 2023
@Dashtop well iD has over the years taken a couple of million to write and maintain, I think everybody would be open to an even more user friendly editor if you arrange the financing.