On Saturday 26 October 2013, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > But isnt the widening gap a very natural thing to happen for a geo > database? In the end your mappers are distributed unevenly so your > pace is distributed unevenly. Not everything can be done with > armchair mapping so we as the one living in the very good mapped > areas can't help to create a complete map of very sparse mapped > areas.
Different levels of completeness are natural and as i said at the beginning they will continue to exist. Having a widening range in completeness and quality however is not i think. Note i am not primarily talking about differences between areas far away from each other, like between Madagaskar and Germany. This is fully to be expected and i also don't think these differences are generally increasing. Also it would be counterproductive to try reducing this mainly through remote mapping from the distance by European mappers. I am more talking about differences at close range, take for example http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/61.5554/8.4735 where one feature (the lakes) has been mapped to a high level of detail while another (the glaciers) is very crude. Again this is fully normal, whoever mapped the lakes might have been focussed on those and is not interested in the glaciers or might lack the necessary information or skills. But it seems to me there is very little communication on such matters. Partly this is a matter of having the right tools (both map notes and fixme tags are not optimal here) but it is also a matter of mapping culture i think. It bothers me when i see such things because they are strongly visible quality issues which could be solved with relatively little work. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
