Maybe the register could be started and the funds made available to a peer-reviewed mapper some way. E.g. if I volunteer to do a town, then I'd need to submit 3 favourable recommendations of my work by other Australian OSM'ers.
Eventually it would be a reputation system, but for now it can be manual. I'm guessing we can use the tools to review other mappers work. I know I've made the occasional correction. Regards Paul -- Paul Zagoridis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blog: http://wealthesteem.org Wealth is created between your ears personal blog: http://zagz.com mobile: +61 414 707 343 skype: paul.zagoridis -- Join me on your network of choice LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulzag Xing: http://www.xing.com/go/invite/3306344.2a5ab0 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul_Zagoridis/815205625 ecademy: http://www.ecademy.com/user/paulzagoridis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liz Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2008 10:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [talk-au] Map a Town Register 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
