<story><title>Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (2014)</title><url>https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emacsen</author><text>Wow... How odd to log into Hacker News and see this.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m the author of the post back in 2014. The sad thing is that I&amp;#x27;m midway through writing a new post about why I feel OSM is failing.&lt;p&gt;I have largely stepped away from the project in the last two years. I still believe strongly in OSM, and what it stands for, but I feel the project has not lived up to what the public needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aluhut</author><text>I hope your post won&amp;#x27;t end up being so generalist as this comment is.&lt;p&gt;OSM is the best freely available map service in Germany. Many (if not all?) local and national institutions use it as well as many private companies.&lt;p&gt;The mobile apps got really nice and are useful for normal users for different purposes and all that for free.&lt;p&gt;There are even apps everybody can use to fill the data gaps like: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;westnordost&amp;#x2F;StreetComplete&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;westnordost&amp;#x2F;StreetComplete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It needs some kind of pretty hard decadence (or corruption?) to ignore that for such a broad generalization.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (2014)</title><url>https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emacsen</author><text>Wow... How odd to log into Hacker News and see this.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m the author of the post back in 2014. The sad thing is that I&amp;#x27;m midway through writing a new post about why I feel OSM is failing.&lt;p&gt;I have largely stepped away from the project in the last two years. I still believe strongly in OSM, and what it stands for, but I feel the project has not lived up to what the public needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afeezaziz</author><text>Please do share the link to your post when you publish it. I really want to know pros and cons of OSM especially the gotchas if we want to fully support it.</text></comment>