I bet they trialled this tech when making their maps in India about a year ago:

"We've done about 50 cities now, in their completeness, with driving
directions and everything - completely done by having locals use some
software we haven't released publicly to draw their city on top of our
photo imagery." Michael T. Jones [1]

On 6/24/08, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Other than that, I think it's a positive development because OSM will
>  automatically get some of the publicity by means of contrast.

time to batten down hatches for potential slashdotting?

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[1]http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/google-uses-crowdsourcing-to-c.html

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