On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:02 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> > There would come a point where you will run out of things to > learn/care about, or are you planning to become so knowledgable on > subjects that you would specilise in things to write out information > to the nth degree? > I've written articles about: - Staxigoe, a small town on the Scottish coast - Phare de la Veille, a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany - Oort constants, used in astronomy - PayPerPost, an ethically-challenged astroturfing site. - Herens, a Swiss cattle variety. - Theodore Deck, a 19th century French potter. - Cullin-la-Ringo Massacre, a massacre of whites by aboriginals many years ago. I'm not running out any time soon :) > > That was my point, the amount of unwritten information in wikipedia is > starting to become a trickle instead of the flood it once was when > there was a blank canvas. > Not really - Africa is still a blank canvas, for instance. But this is the OSM list, not the Wikipedia list (feel free to join...), so I'll leave it there. > You could always do what others have done and start tagging trees and > tagging them with botanical names, that would keep you busy for some > time to come :) > Got bigger problems to deal with first. > > And that's assuming NearMap doesn't improve/expand coverage and/or > someone else doesn't start doing a similar thing in more rural areas, > the amount of data that can be mapped is huge. > That would be awesome. Steve
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