On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:55:28 +1100 "Paul Zagoridis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > > 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. > Are you aware of the Caribbean work that was done earlier this year as part of a new OSM Fieldwork programme? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMFieldwork Pledges and monies were collected through Pledgebank. http://www.pledgebank.com/osmfieldwork I thought it was very clever and effective. I'm not quite sure what, but there might be ideas to take from that approach … ?? (I have seen an Australian equivalent of Pledgebank if you want to be parochial – can't remember its name.) HTH Cheers _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
