John, Neat idea. You would not get any traces of course and that makes it a little more difficult to do POI's and correct positional alignment but in principal it's a great idea for at least getting street names done.
Cheers Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John McKerrell >Sent: 28 October 2008 11:38 AM >Cc: OSM Talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Calling all Yahoo! tracers. Manchester,UK needs you >before Saturday! > > >On 28 Oct 2008, at 10:58, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: > >> Thanks to all Yahoo tracers! It really made a huge difference, gave >> people, families and children without GPS units a good easy task to >> fill in the names, and helped us using the GPS devices loaded with no >> named streets, to know where to capture the names. >> >> Many thanks! > >This is good to hear, and links to something that I've been thinking >of doing for the next Liverpool mapping party (whenever I get around >to arranging that). > >I've been thinking of having some sort of registration process for >people who are coming, just something simple that takes the email >address of people and their address/postcode/latitude&longitude >entered on a map. We would then get people to do Yahoo! tracing of the >areas that people are coming from and then send them through a PDF of >the blank streets before the mapping party. The idea then would be >that people could actually turn up to the mapping party having already >done the mapping and we could then take them through how to enter the >data into the database. > >Any thoughts? > >John > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.4/1751 - Release Date: 27/10/2008 >10:44 PM _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
