Yeah, but there's still so much to map it'll keep people busy for months! Either way... I agree with your comment... let's think further afield when we're done with our own turf:P
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, > there are lots of people in the first world mapping even the most irrelevant > buildings in their villages, while in the third world there are large cities > with good Yahoo imagery and nobody mapping them. Sad, isn't it? South Africa > does not seem to need much help, by the way. > > Lucas > > > ________________________________ > De: [email protected] en nombre de brendan barrett > Enviado el: mar 30/12/2008 18:03 > Para: [email protected] > Asunto: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone? > > I've only just joined the OSM Talk Mailing list and wanted to respond > to this message... so i've pasted some of it below the jump. 80n... if > you're bored in the evenings, how about thinking far away from home? > South Africa has good aerial photography for the major cities (Yahoo > Imagery)... wanna give us a hand down here? : P > > ____________________________________ > >> 80n wrote: >> In my case I've run out of stuff to map. Can someone build some more >> roads please? ;) > > > To clarify, my immediate area is complete in every direction as far as I can > go before meeting another area that is already mapped. And by complete I > mean all everything down to post boxes but not as far as house numbers. > > As far as Surrey is concerned all towns and large villages are fairly well > mapped. I don't think we can declare it finished yet but it's not far off. > > I don't know how other counties are doing. Are any others near to > completion? > > 80n > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
