On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Roy Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > There is no point endangering the > > genuinely collected data for the sake of some lazy copying. > > This is not fairly worded. In Australia (and other sparsely populated > areas), it is not just "for the sake of some lazy copying" - this > issue is critical to whether there is any hope of eventually getting > reasonable coverage of street names throughout the country. It's a > big, sparse country. > > Yeah. I'm not willing to concede that staying at home and mapping a few hundred streets using electronic source is somehow "lazier" than driving a long way to take photo of a couple of streets. Physically visiting streets is seriously time consuming. The ratio must be something like 10:1 or worse. Steve
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