At 05:21 AM 8/18/2006, stephen white wrote:
On 18/08/2006, at 3:22 PM, Ari Jolma wrote:
And while they had roads more or less, it was all the other
information: bus stops, nr of lanes, traffic signs etc. etc. they
needed to map.
There's also the fact that even professionally organised information
contains errors.
Re-collecting information allows opportunities for correlating data
and correcting problems.
What you actually get isn't always what's promised on the contracts.
And, in theory, with an open source, community-contributed dataset
there'd be more people to fix mistakes and keep it more updated due
to various construction and repair activities.
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