OSM is always part of my personal narrative. Is your question about why OSM has difficulty attracting media attention and organizational support? Why not post the same question on the mailing lists? As the responses come in, you can read that as my answer.
I don't agree that WOF competes with OSM for any of those things, but even if it does, I don't see how that means Mapzen and Linux Foundation hate OSM's guts... Open data is not a zero sum game.
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> Open data is not a zero sum game. I don't think that makes any sense as a general statement. Outside of the realm of "data that is already there" there are finite resources to curate and produce the data and finite potential consumers. ...
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.. trying to stipulate a right for projects to remain on life support even after they have shown that they do not have a working business model, is the Chapter 11 of open data / OSS and distorts the markets just as bad, to the detriment of those that actually work.
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Latest post on http://mapzen.com is "WOF ꞉fist-bump꞉ OSM" concluding "...you may be wondering what this has to do with OSM? Answer is: I don’t know, but..." So my q. still holds: Can you show any pos. statement on
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Can you find any position statement that says there's any animosity?
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