I would not preclude payed for work to be honest. If a company was using OSM for the basis of their product, and their was a certain area of the world that for some reason just wasn't being mapped, what's to stop sponsorship for those area's?
I don't think it's inconceivable. I'm particularly interested in the USSD functions, I've not really heard about them before, I may wander over to the OpenMoko mailing lists, and see if they know any thing about it :) Doug 2009/3/19 Michel Barakat <[email protected]> > Looks very promising. > Something similar could be implemented for OpenStreetMap but instead > of paying the users, we would need to find an alternative mean of > rewarding their work. > > 2009/3/19 Douglas Furlong <[email protected]>: > > Some thing that may be of interest regarding the possible use of mobile > > phones in the third world. > > > > http://blip.tv/file/1868958 > > > > Doug > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > >
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