On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Hillsman, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > There are many good-sized cities in the US with very few edits. I'm tempted > to propose an experiment. What if "we" (figuratively: I mean the OSM > Foundation or an authorized group) simply removed all of the > original-and-unedited imported TIGER data from a few of these. Leave > everything else in place. Then do some outreach/publicity in these cities and > a few others of comparable size, situation, and mapping activity, and then > observe the subsequent mapping rates. Of course, this would not be perfectly > controlled--there would be nothing to stop people from outside the area going > in and tracing imagery. Or to stop locals from importing local data. But some > things such as shops, pubs, bicycle parking, businesses really do have to be > mapped from on the ground, and they could be used as indicators, even if > nonlocals still could visit and map (here in Florida, I've encountered data > entered during a week or two, and only that, by people who edit frequently in > Europe before and after--consistent with mapping while on a vacation here). >
I strongly suspect that unless you banned imports in that area, you'd quickly find that people would just make new (probably much better) imports. _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
