la, 2007-05-26 kello 17:34 -0400, Ian Darwin kirjoitti:
> [Somebody not Ian Darwin:]
> > In _many_ years, it may be a viable alternative, but as an example, my
> > local town of 40000 people (Glenrothes) was entirely missing, and Dundee
> > (140K) had only one road. There are hot-spots where it is locally usable.
> 
> So, get your Neo1973 and start driving. :-) Oh, and a bit of software.

Yeah; this GPS cellphone trend (also including proprietary phones), may
yet accelerate openstreetmap's viability as more and more people will
have GPS devices with them "always".

There was some ideas going around on the IRC channel about making OSM
mapping into a game, with points for mapped streets etc. 

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