On 4 February 2011 11:28, <[email protected]> wrote: > I would agree with this too; A fuller map will greatly increase usage and > visibility. However I don't think that a bot is necessarily the way to go. > > What would be useful is a simple way for users to specify a bounding > box/polygon and download an OSM file with the OS data (or OS updates to OSM > data such as adding a name where one does not exist), which they can then > manually check and upload as a changeset. This would allow data to be > quickly imported semi-automatically in areas which are blank in osm, > without the risk of a bot overwriting data one someones' patch. > > That could be a great way of doing it. Create the changes off-list, render it and check it visually and then press 'submit'.
Peter Andy > > On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:00:18 +0000, Kevin Peat <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with you 100% on this. I think if OSM is street-level complete > > (preferably with postcodes as well) then it will be picked up by a lot > more > > developers for their iPhone and Android apps and the amount of feedback > we > > could get would be a 100 times greater than now. A standardised, OSM > > hosted, > > bug reporting api could also be offered to developers so they don't end > up > > building their own versions of MapDust. > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > On 4 February 2011 01:14, Kai Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Also, we are getting some of the most comprehensive on the ground > >> verification and improvement reports from applications like the Sat-Nav > >> Skobbler bugs with MapDust. The more complete the map is, the more > people > >> will use things like that and give feedback on errors. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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