On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: > Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out > of date. I have recently heard of a situation where up-to-date > Canberra data could have been *extremely* usefull to somebody.
As an active Canberra mapper, exactly which parts are 'badly out of date'? The only areas I can think of that you could be referring to are a couple of new land estates in Gungahlin. > Since it was exactly this type of situation that prompted me to spend > so much time mapping Canberra and keeping it very up-to-date, and > despite my revulsion at having to work on a project while the three > forkers are still in residence, this weekend I will bring Canberra > up-to-date again. I may be wrong, but I think youll find theres more than 3 fork projects tentatively being planned. > This data could not have been arm-chair mapped with nearmap (or Bing > for that matter) but needs people out there actually mapping rather > than incessantly bitching and moaning about things on these lists. Once again, can you suggest areas which arent covered by bing/nearmap that are out of date? Other than a couple of new land estates I cant think of any areas needing work, but it would be great if you could point some of us locals in the right direction, so that if there are unmapped areas there can be more than just your manhours spent alone on it, after all, that is a great thing about OSM is the teamwork to more completely map unmapped or out-of-date areas. > I really wish that OSM-F would finalise the CT/licence implementation, > (tomorrow would be good!) I think we've all been hoping for a finalisation one way or the other, or even a rough timeline which can be stuck to. The damage done to the project through this dragged out process and constantly moving the goalposts may be irrepairable. At best, only a few mappers may abandon the project, at worst we may have set precedent with data providers being wary of making concessions to open-data projects, having given away their data then be told 'thanks for your effort but were not interested anymore'. Not wanting to dishearten you, but currently the ODbL/CTs changeover is 2 weeks into phase 3 of 5. Phase 3 will take '5 or 10 weeks', Phase 4 will take at least 8 weeks (and apparently community consultation). If everything moves as quickly as is scheduled (considering its taken 12 months to reach this stage), the changeover might be complete by the start of summer. David _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
