Changeset: 30161227
Adding Address to Lush
Closed by emacsen
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created_by | JOSM/1.5 (8159 en) |
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source | OSM NYC Mapping Party |
Discussion
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Comment from Geography Canada
emacsen's forgotten about OSM :(. It's been over a year now.. :(. One amazing, helpful editor lost :(. Or did he pass away? I hope not.
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Comment from emacsen
I didn't die, I just realized that OSM was more a cause of pain in my life than joy.
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Comment from Geography Canada
Why? :(..
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Comment from emacsen
Much of what I ended up doing with OSM felt more painful than helpful.
For example, organizing the local meetup- many times no one came.
Working on the DWG- I was subject to harassment (including verbal abuse online stalking and references to my loved ones).
Working on the software side, even when I was officially given help and support through Google Summer of Code, it was always a struggle to get that code approved by the powers that be.
When I worked on the State of the Map, one person with a personal vendetta tried (unsuccessfully) to disband the entire committee to kick me off.
The UK community in London is full of great folks, but it's at its core very much a closed community of people who still think of OSM as a hobby project that they control.
The US is full of corporate players who use money to try to influence the project to allow them to have more direct control in order to increase profits, and the project be damned.
And then we have a lot of people around the world who are just jerks.
I've met some wonderful people through OSM, some people I consider some of my closest friends, but the emotional toll that being in the community has had on me over so many years doesn't leave me wanting more.
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