On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: > Futher thinking about this had me wondering just how much latent > interest for these kinds of maps there might be out there and whether > one could setup a 'map a town' register where people pledge amounts to > get the town mapped on OSM and then when it reaches a threshold to fund > someone you call in the donations and do it. More of an issue here than > overseas I think due to our very sparse population, if there's 1 > serious mapper every 100,000 people then that's only about 200 to cover > all of .au and 1,500 for the .uk. And it's so far for many of us to get > to areas relatively unmapped.
This is an interesting idea, but my other half has mentioned a potential problem here which I would express in terms of the variation of mapping skills evident on OSM so far. So you would need to have a method which would not produce fiction but good quality results. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
