On the MapRoulette subject, the connectivity challenge error count dropped below 10,000 today, down from around 60,000 a mere four weeks ago.
This is really outstanding progress. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to ride on the coat tails of Richard's comments: Thank you > Matthias and anyone else who helped set this up. Super excited about such > efforts as they further deliniate great tasks for archair mapping and > connecting local with global communities. > > On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > !i! wrote: > >> Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you > >> (literally): http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132 > > > > And thank you, too. I've always been sceptical about this sort of event > - my > > vision for OSM is that we need more contributors with local knowledge, > not > > more "remote mapping" - but in hindsight I think this, and MapRoulette, > are > > showing some really interesting ways forward. By applying the OSM > community > > to a problem in Mechanical Turk fashion, we're able to achieve much > better > > results than an unthinking import or automated edit would do. > > > > Give the OSM community a task and it will carry it out much better than > > you'd imagine. There's lots we can learn from that. > > > > cheers > > Richard > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Operation-Cowboy-Preaparing-Thank-you-gift-tp5737472p5738099.html > > Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > Alex Barth > http://twitter.com/lxbarth > tel (+1) 202 250 3633 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- John Novak 585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676)
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