> So please, turn away from imports and work on getting mappers in > charge, especially out pounding the streets. The outcome will be much, > much better in the end, and that end will come much, much quicker.
The 'Quicker' part will always be debatable; I put in many hours on fixups and the end result of the number of miles of properly routable interstate, state, and county highway is much much greater than what I could have produced from scratch with only aerial images. There is an issue of "community" in the US and how to get it going in general across the US. There are areas in the US with more active communities, but I can count the number of active mappers in my state on one hand. I doubt TIGER has anything to do with this. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk