We do. There are data that are not so easiliy trackable. Borders, for example, are almost impossible to track yourself, unless you have a textual and non-ambiguous description, like "follows this river".
Which reminds me of the project I had looked forward to do: Canoeing the russian-norwegian border river with a GPS :) Unfortunately, we got the data through other means :) - Vegard On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 09:02:09PM +1100, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > so we don't need imported data? > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 > From: paul youlten <paul.youl...@gmail.com> > To: Liz <ed...@billiau.net> > > Liz, > > The coastline I did back in the "old days" was between Hastings in > Sussex and Folkestone in Kent. I did this by walking along the high > tide mark with my GPS. Bits of coastline that were inaccessible (e.g: > Harbors, cliffs and off shore islands) were done with the assistance > of Yahoo Aerial photos. > > Really, we made perfectly good street maps without importing data for > some years before people started bulk importing data. > > PY > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, paul youlten wrote: > >> Saying "This would be a disaster" is a bit hyperbolic. Sure, people > >> who hate OSMapping and just want to use bulk imports will be very, > >> very disappointed, and possibly even a bit upset that they actually > >> have to go out into the real world and make maps. ;-) > > > > I find your attitude very difficult to understand. > > You may feel that we shouldn't use any information that we can get from > > 'elsewhere' but you might like to check your own country. If it has a > > coastline, was it mapped by an OSM mapper in a kayak or was it imported > data? > > > > > > > > > > -- > Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 > > ------------------------------------------------------- > -- > BOFH excuse #193: > > Did you pay the new Support Fee? > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk