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by Sujan 1479 days ago
I think those are the important bits:

> The Engineering Working Group (EWG) of the OSMF has “commissioned” (I think that’s OSMF language for paid) a longstanding proponent of rules and complexity to, uh, investigate how to add rules and complexity to OSM.

> [...]

> Let us pray that the EWG is just throwing Jochen a bone to go play in the corner and stop annoying the grownups.

It's a "response" to https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/06/02/announcement-data-...

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This seems an important bit to me:

> Facebook solved this in a beautifully OSM-like way: daylight. Daylight is a sanitized, consistent and cleaned up map based on OSM

https://daylightmap.org/ https://registry.opendata.aws/daylight-osm/#usageexamples https://gist.github.com/jenningsanderson/3e42a99dcb8f760038a...