On 17 June 2011 18:38, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn <da...@incanberra.com.au> wrote: >> That is the reason why very little effort has been expended mapping >> Australia lately, until we know what skeleton of data we'll have left to >> work with after the changeover. >> >> If you want to map for OSM at the moment, your best bet is to map >> offline using something like JOSM, then save all your edits to be >> uploaded when the licence issue has been sorted out, otherwise you might >> find youre spending hours fixing up the map only to find all your work >> removed or broken when other users data is removed. > > So is there some sort of secret Australian cabal that I should know > about? Do you guys have a mailing list? I sure don't see much of this > kind of discussion on this list...
It's hardly a secret, in fact one of the guiding emphasises is on transparency. http://groups.google.com/group/osm-fork?pli=1 Although I disagree with mapping offline, that would seem to be the most likely approach to people duplicating effort. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
