Hi, On 06/12/12 01:17, Mark Gray wrote:
I think that one of the strengths of OSM is that people can map what they are interested in
I wholeheartedly agree, and I would never get in the way of someone mapping all building footprints in a city - if it is worth that much effort to him then this means that he'll very likely be someone whom OSM can count on to continue to do good work in the area!
Someone *importing* data, e.g. building footprints for a whole city, is a wholly different matter though, because the amount of data produced per unit of human involvement (UHI - my invention; whether you call that "sweat" or "lifeblood" or what) is considerably higher.
Data with high UHI is valuable because with it comes a promise or at least a high likelihood of someone caring. Data with low UHI is less valuable.
A house or landuse area that someone has mapped by hand will usually have high UHI and I'll happily wait a bit longer for my editor to load such data which is obviously important enough for my fellow mappers to spend lots of time on! The same house or landuse area imported (among thousands of others, likely) has low UHI and I might be less happy to have to wait for data that someone has soullessly dumped onto OSM.
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