> I'm arguing that completing the map by survey creates a community who > will go on to improve and maintain the map.
This is no doubt true. But surely having an area that has been *surveyed* to 100% road name completion is just as likely to put off any new contributors as one that was *traced* to 100%? (i.e. "not very" in my opinion) Also I think we're looking at this from two different perspectives. If you're near Birmingham where you have a nearly one million residents who might join in on a local community. "Doing it the hard way" to build a community spirit might work there. I'm in a rural Northumberland with a local population of 3000. Many of the back roads have hardly any traffic and I've barely seen a handful of edits in my local area since I joined OSM a year ago. If we insist on doing it the hard way round here then don't expect road completion for a decade or two. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
