> > "these data may contain errors, you can use it at your own risk, but > you can't sue us." > > This whole wikipedia comparison seems bogus to me. Kids use wikipedia to do their homework, people don't trust their lives to it like they do with maps every day of the week. I've used an OS map many times to navigate across Dartmoor in bad weather. I would like to do the same with an OSM map but I don't want to end up falling into a quarry because of some idiot's vandalism.
Total freedom to edit can only work if the number of "good" mappers outweighs the "bad" in a particular area. This might be the case in Birmingham or Bonn but I bet there are loads of smaller towns and rural areas even in the UK where one mapper has done the bulk of the work. I don't think that putting some basic restrictions on newbies for a few weeks (maybe just being able to add POI's or raise bugs on existing work) would discourage people who really want to get involved but it would stop random kids from signing up and immediately screwing up months of other people's efforts. Kevin
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