![]() There are few parts of OpenStreetMap where I didn't have some either direct or indirect involvement. In that time, I mapped, organized mapping groups in two cities, contributed to the founding of OpenStreetMap US, a non-profit dedicated to OpenStreetMap in the United States, gave talks on and about OpenStreetMap, contributed to the codebase, mentored two students for OSM through Google Summer of Code, started a working group dedicated to import of data into OpenStreetMap in the US, created and coordinated a massive bot run in the US, moderated the Reddit page r/OpenStreetMap and was a member of the OpenStreetMap Data Working Group, which gave me escalated privileges (both politically and technically) for the project. ![]() I was a contributor to the OpenStreetMap project from 2008 until roughly 2016. In this article, I explore the reasons why I think OSM has stalled, as well as solutions to get the project back on track. For those of us who care about Free and Open data, this is a problem. ![]() I was a contributor for OpenStreetMap for a long time, and I advocated for OpenStreetMap for a long time, but the project has stalled while the proprietary mapping world has continued to improve in data quality.
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