On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Nick Hocking <[email protected]> wrote: > this is the downside to tracing. Once an area looks well mapped, there is > little incentive for anyone to go there to map it properly. I'd really like > it if all roads that don't have names yet (in OSM) were just deleted. Then > II'd be much more inclined to drive there and collect all the infomation.
Strong disagreement here. A few reasons: 1) Roads without names are almost as valuable as roads with names for certain uses. (Eg, choosing a route to save to a GPS works just as well without names) 2) There are strong arguments that there is no copyright in street names. If that argument is ever developed, we could easily fill in all the street names from other sources without doing the ground surveying. 3) "there is little incentive for anyone to go there" - perhaps subjective, but I'm much more motivated to go to a well-mapped area to check on specific details than to go to an empty area where no one has even done the low-hanging fruit (ie, traced the streets). Surveying suburban streets by GPS these days makes about as much sense as using a horse and cart on a freeway... Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
