Actually I enjoy the process of going out & surveying stuff for OSM. Of course it's nice that we can be better (more up-to-date, more detail, additional attributes etc) than other map providers, but many contributors do it not purely to add stuff to OSM, but for a multitude of other reasons:
- to learn more about the places around where one lives; - to get out; - to meet-up with like minded people; - to get some exercise; - to go to the less obvious places; - to avoid stultifying in front of a screen; - to collect some data for some other purpose. As long as people are motivated by one or all of these reasons, I see no reason why they won't contribute to OSM. I suspect it's a fallacy that people only contribute to OSM because other sources of OpenData aren't up to scratch. If we have competition it is with other types of volunteer-collected data, not with things like OS Open Data. OSM will never achieve the consistency of coverage that OSGB do, so there will always be applications and use-cases which will prefer to use data of this sort Anyway, as long as I continue to find on average one bug a week with OS OpenData streetnames there's room for both of us: particularly as I work to improve both sets of data together. Jerry Clough On 26 March 2016 at 09:46, John Aldridge <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26-Mar-16 06:30, Rob Nickerson wrote: > >> >And there seems to be some more >> >open data on the way from the OS. >> >> Interesting. A good opportunity but maybe also a threat - I wonder what >> quality of map can now be produced from OGL and other open data and how >> that compares to OSM. We already have some users that mix and match >> between OSM and other sources. >> >> How do we ensure the mix continues to contain a lot of OSM data? >> > > By ensuring that OSM data is of higher quality, or contains useful > information still absent from those other sources. If we can't or don't do > that, OSM (in the UK) will cease to have a purpose, and can be left to > wither un-mourned. > > -- > Cheers, > John > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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