Re: [OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

2009-03-20 Thread Michel Barakat
I'm particularly interested in the USSD functions, I've not really heard about them before, I may wander over to the OpenMoko mailing lists, and see if they know any thing about it :) Afaik, USSD channels are controlled by the mobile operator. I believe all devices support USSD but you'll

[OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

2009-03-19 Thread Douglas Furlong
Some thing that may be of interest regarding the possible use of mobile phones in the third world. http://blip.tv/file/1868958 Doug ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

2009-03-19 Thread Michel Barakat
Looks very promising. Something similar could be implemented for OpenStreetMap but instead of paying the users, we would need to find an alternative mean of rewarding their work. 2009/3/19 Douglas Furlong douglas.furl...@gmail.com: Some thing that may be of interest regarding the possible use of

Re: [OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

2009-03-19 Thread Douglas Furlong
I would not preclude payed for work to be honest. If a company was using OSM for the basis of their product, and their was a certain area of the world that for some reason just wasn't being mapped, what's to stop sponsorship for those area's? I don't think it's inconceivable. I'm particularly

Re: [OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

2009-03-19 Thread Ed Avis
Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at gmail.com writes: I would not preclude payed for work to be honest. If a company was using OSM for the basis of their product, and their was a certain area of the world that for some reason just wasn't being mapped, what's to stop sponsorship for those area's?

Re: [OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

2009-03-19 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/19 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at gmail.com writes: I would not preclude payed for work to be honest. If a company was using OSM for the basis of their product, and their was a certain area of the world that for some reason just wasn't being mapped,