On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:24 PM, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think that OSM will be "complete, and in maintenance mode" once we >> have a mapper on every block. > > And in what dream world do you live?
Yes, I know. Come on in; the water's fine. :-) Yes, Canada is big and people are sparse in essentially all of it. By population density Canada is number 230-something, iirc. We have some real challenges painting a room this big. I thought the idea that imports were hurting OSM was ridiculous when it was first proposed to me. We have an interesting opportunity. We have been granted permission to include CanVec. We have a lot of space and many remote communities on various scales. So we could choose to experiment and try to find the best way to import so that local mappers start participating. Few other OSM country-communities have this opportunity. The US has data but it's already in place, everywhere. Australia has similar population and density challenges, but less available data to import. If there is an ideal way to use external reference data to "seed" local communities and get local contributors to OSM, I'd like to know what the secret is. It seemed like the Toronto community grew the fastest when we had the arterial grid roads for most of the city. Some of those grids were "filled in" by new local mappers. I think OSM with more contributors is better. Do we keep doing things the same way, or do we try some other things? Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
