There are tons of things. People drive in the US so pubs are difficult to arrange things around. Mapping in the US is boring because of the big gridded cities. I map much less in the US than the UK. It's not just that there are roads there already, which by the way is a good thing because I have sat for hours correcting them against aerial.
It's just not that simple to say imports killed it. Steve stevecoast.com On Jun 10, 2011, at 8:15, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> As in, "A comparative study of the development of the OSM community >> in <X> in the standard universe where data has been imported, >> and in parallel universe P281/304-II where all other factors are >> unchanged but no data has been imported"? > > I'm sure Muki's working on it. ;) > > My contention is that the US community is still struggling with such basic > issues because it didn't have the shared experience of creating a map from > scratch, whereas the UK and Germany, largely import-free, have strong > communities built out of this experience. > > This might be wrong, and if the US's problems spring from something other > than the big import, I'd be very interested to know what. The old canard of > "but the US is so _big_" doesn't count :) > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_population_density). > > cheers > Richard > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-Analysis-New-Data-and-bot-tp6455312p6461116.html > Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
