On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 15:28, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/04/10 15:43, Tim François wrote: >> I understand that with an area mapped there is less impetus to head on >> over and start making tracks and surveying. But just leaving the area >> blank when we have this fantastic opportunity to populate seems silly, >> no? This far down the line, it doesn't look like there are any mappers >> in the immediate area of which I was talking about. > > I speak from personal experience - when we first got the Yahoo imagery I > enthusiastically traced the nearest largely unmapped area to me (Harlow) > from the images. That was several years ago and to this day most of the > roads in Harlow exist but are unnamed because nobody has taken up the baton.
In the only London meet-up I've been to I spoke at length to a person whose main contribution to OSM is adapting her walks around London to Yahoo! streetname surveying. While I understand what you're saying I think it's also important to recognize that we all have different ways to contribute. Some potential OSM contributors may not be interested in on-the-ground surveying, and some aren't interested in chair mapping. The two can compliment each other. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
