On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And a couple of links talking about the crowdsourcing that produced the > Indian detail maps. > > http://philbridges.com/filechute/michael_jones_cc2007.mp3 (starts at about > 75% in) > > http://www.dankarran.com/blog/archives/2007/07/24/googles_approach_to_crowdsourcing_map_data.php It "wisdom of crowds" is a good theory but it fails when the crowd has people in it with an agenda and 'yell' louder than the crowd does. Point in fact. I wanted to add important links to the ColdFusion page on Wikipedia and it was all removed because the 'editor' wanted no links on the page and would have removed the dmoz link if he could. Wisdom of crowds vs. pigheaded controller of crowds. And the examples go on and on. I say you get a member of each religious group and country in a room to review all of the data for a location and then say it's 'real'. That way Kashmir will not swing back and forth based on who's added it to what map. :) The list of "supported countries" for google maps is much smaller than I > would have guessed: > http://local.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=16634 They're probably focusing on places where things like this can be avoided: http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2008/07/catastrophe-for.html As above, one loud voice with false data mixed with real can have a massive effect over truth. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265683 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
