On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > Fred Gifford <fred.giff...@gmail.com> writes: [ ... ] >> - Building trail mapping communities in the US. > > Indeed, that is the key point.
I think this is the best way to success. You could even leave out the "trail" and it will have a positive effect on your trails. If you inspire a new mapper to add parking lots and water fountains, some of those may intersect with the interests of your trail users. I can't think of a good substitute for a motivated local mapper. Daniel Begin said this recently on talk-ca: "You'll find that there is nothing better than an active community to find odd features in authoritative data!" Daniel knows of what he speaks, he works at the Canadian National Mapping Agency and has been participating in OSM for several years. He publishes authoritative data collected by paid professionals, with what I presume is top notch equipment. And the OSM community of enthusiastic amateurs finds and fixes odd features and errors. I don't think that you can get that nearly obsessive attention to detail across a large area. It takes a _personal_ interest in the data. I think of that area of obsessive interest and perhaps encyclopaedic knowledge as the natural range of a mapper. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us