On 8 Jul 2008, at 13:55, James Ewen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:27 PM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would just run some mapping parties, and remember to go for a drink >> afterward. They're basically proven effective and shouldn't cost >> anything at all to run. > > Sure thing... how many people here want to fly in to Fort McMurray, AB > to map it? I wonder how many people are going to be able to do that > for free.
I think you're being obtuse. From looking at the map it wouldn't take me much time to map the whole place myself so it doesn't need a party. > Sorry I don't agree on your statement of "shouldn't cost anything at > all to run". My employer subsidizes most of my OSM mapping, but they > don't know it. Unfortunately I keep going back to the same places over > and over again. I get in a little bit of deviations from the norm when > I can, but it's going to take a long time to be able to map all of > Northern Alberta this way. I know I'm helplessly stupid and lame, but, to run a party in my nearest city (San Francisco) basically costs nothing. I get a space for free (or just go to starbucks). I drive, cycle or walk there. I put out the publicity using the internet. People turn up, we do some mapping and I show them how to do stuff, then we grab a drink afterward. None of these costs are different from any other Saturday. > On another tangent, if the licensing issues can be settled, we might > soon have a base map provided by the Government of Canada upon which > to build. This is probably our best avenue to pursue. A base map will > get 95% of the roads in the database, and making minor edits and > adding new roads can then become the priority. I'm working on that from the OSMF PoV Best Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-ca
