> There is definite room for arguing that it will reduce active mapping in some situations.
This keeps getting raised and I'm not sure how true it is. Go and look at some of the areas that are 95-100% complete according to the ITO analysis: http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main Did all mapping and surveys in these areas really stop as soon as all the roads were "done"? Or did people move onto to adding houses, shops, footpaths, traffic lights, post boxes, powerlines and an infinite array of other minutiae? I look at somewhere like Edinburgh and see a very detailed map with individual buildings and house numbers. Around my way I see entire towns that are completely absent from the map. If I lived in Edinburgh I'd be looking for fine-grained details that I could add or correct. Living where I do I just want to get a skeleton of road coverage sorted out. Both are valid activities and benefit the map as a whole.
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