On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM <[email protected]> wrote:
> In order to get a better level of completeness in the UK what we need are > more mappers. Absolutely. Everything we do should be focussed on helping get more mappers, or helping the mappers we have get their jobs done more easily. Everything that is a direct substitute for having more mappers is, at best, a distraction from (what I see as) the desired goal. If we have mappers, and lots of them, then - as we've now demonstrated - we can get a glorious dataset. Note that not everyone here shares the same goals - some people are focussed on the data, others on the community. It might be worth examining why we (collectively) have a tendency to discuss the data all the time and I see very few discussions on community matters. I find in most conversations, if the answer is "because we don't have enough mappers yet" then the solution is not to bypass them with some form of automation but to get more of them. Unfortunately to most OSMers, community building seems hard (which it is), and writing bots or doing imports seems easy (which it's not). > A bot is putting short-term gain ahead of our long-term interests. Indeed. What's more, all the effort that goes into writing bots, discussing them, justifying them etc is time that hasn't gone into the primary goal of recruiting and helping more people to OSM. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
