Gregory's Server@migurski @zverik @woodpeck @openstreetmap I agree with you in the sense that I acknowledge that US-based corps would like OSM to cover their wants/needs.
But you're kinda making @woodpeck 's argument here: corps struggle to grasp this grassroots thing made by a handful of british guys and a dozen german hackers in a trenchcoat. Corps will want to sculpt that into something they can have some control and extract value out of.
@migurski @zverik @woodpeck @openstreetmap Which leads to the *ethos* of the issue at hand: What do we want OSM(F) to be; what should OSM(F) be?
It can be a crowdsourcing tool so that US-based corps can extract value out of it.
Or it can be a GIS playground so that anarchist hackers can play around and invent new things.
I do not think it can be those two things at once.
And I'll choose anarchist hackers over US corps, any day.