On 2019-06-30 19:12, john whelan wrote: > The first major concern is "Working for a mapping project with Apple." the concern here is paid mappers and the quality of their work.
To be fair to the Apple-paid guys, one of them did a beautiful job with waterways. I haven't looked at other contributions, but that one is very good quality. > The second is there are a fair number of imports of varying quality. Most schools I suspect are fairly accurate but it would be nice to tie the node to a building or an area. It would be nice but it requires survey, so it will not be done at any useful rate, for lack of locals. We talked about the Mali schools before - the UNICEF import is a sad dead-end. > I think there is sufficient infrastructure in Africa three days for local mappers. Smartphones are becoming more common and so is an Internet connection albeit driven by social media. Even residential connexions are billed by volume and mobile data is a scarce commodity - it remains a sufficient obstacle to filter out anyone who is not highly motivated. Part of the draw of mapathons is the free wi-fi that too many participants use for many other purposes beside some mapping. > My impression is there would be an economic advantage, larger cities already have street names. Could someone do a PhD in the subject which might well mean a bit more government. My personal view is some things are best done by governments. Highways for example. Of course the government has the street names - locked away in some dead GIS. They'll publish them after they see that Openstreetmap has a more complete set ! > Interestingly some of the changesets are tagged "untangling the spaghetti" and I have sympathy with that mapper. Thanks - at least someone reads my changeset comments... _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
