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by sbarre 680 days ago
Same feedback as everyone else: You fell into the trap of assuming that everyone else understands this topic/project/thing that you're deeply familiar with because you've been living it for so long.

Not everyone knows what "OSM" is.

Even a 2-3 sentence paragraph in your TL;DR that explains (a) what this is and (b) why people should care or want this, would be immensely helpful.

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On the other hand if you don't know what "OSM" is, then you probably don't need this, and probably don't need to care.
Fair but I was referring to the whole write-up on the Gist page not just the headline here on HN.
> Not everyone knows what "OSM" is.

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1053/