On Wednesday 31 Dec 2008 12:02:01 pm brendan barrett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Tanveer Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> what is sad about it? In India only the very big cities have yahoo > >> imagery - and work is going on fairly well there. The rest of the > >> country is a big blank, and GPS instruments are not all that affordable. > >> As the price falls, things will improve. > > "and work is going on fairly well there" > > I wonder who decides what the correct "pace" is?
all I can say is that it is much faster than last year and not as fast as next year ;-) > If it were up to me > i'd like the whole world mapped at street level yesterday. I'd prefer > to accelerate the process as much as possible so that we can start > mapping other things... or better yet, help out in other useful > related projects. I'm never one to be satisfied with the way things > are, and hence hold back. The sooner everything that's in Yahoo > imagery is mapped, the sooner we can put that behind us and move to > the next step (focusing on rural data perhaps? - not that is has to be > done separately:P). there is a guy in Germany who has been tracing a lot of Indian cities - although I am a bit ambivalent about the results. Sure, the roads *are* being traced, but without names and also with guesses as to the road type. I sometimes wonder whether it is easier to delete and remap this than to correct what is done. I feel it is better to stick to mapping rivers, lakes and other features than to map roads without being familiar with the area. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
