On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> I've pondered about this before but I came to the conclusion that > mapping is a little different than adding knowledge to a wiki. You can > always add map details by travelling about, or based on new sets of > data imported, or new aerial imagery available. However once your > knowledge on a topic has been written it's unlikely you will learn > much more on that topic and the number of topics you know about will > possibly also be limited. > > As a veteran of approaching 10,000 edits on Wikipedia, I can tell you that most of them came from outside my own personal knowledge. See a gap, research it, write about it. That's kind of the appeal: in editing, you learn. Others write huge amounts on their topics of interest, finding smaller and smaller topics for article. Similar with OSM, I guess, although I prefer to edit in areas where I could conceivably find myself in the future. In this case, it's not "research" so much as "trace off nearmap", with occasional other sources. Steve
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