<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jan Velterop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:velterop@gmail.com" target="_blank">velterop@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">No, 27,995 still to be converted :-)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jan</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
No,<br> 27995 - x<br>where x is the number of new people working in an extended community mode. The 250,000 people who have helped to create Open Street Map and get it accepted as among the highest quality and most useful cartographic product didn't come from old-school cartographers. They came from all walks, including cyclists and walkers. Wikipedia didn't come from converted academics, it came from people outside academia and encyclopedias. Academia (with a very few exceptions) howled it down and it has succeeded in spite. (It will, whether we like it or not, become a mainstream component of scientific communication). In similar mode there will be a new type of scholarly communication. <br>
<br>P.<br><br><br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>