On 9 August 2010 02:03, Robert Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, here in Austria, we lack contributors in areas where we had a (80% > botched) import of some existing data, and the community is thriving in > those areas where we didn't have an import. Interesting, isn't it?
The problem here isn't imports, if anything the few imports we have had helped make the map less blank where fewer people map, which isn't the same thing as fewer people living. > I'm not trying to say that imports are generally bad, but community growth > usually happens best in the areas that have a lot of emptiness on the map > but enough help for beginners to get their mapping going well. Here the most growth happened in cities and other areas where there is aerial imagery, we didn't have any road data to import, but that doesn't mean the other data that was imported was less useful, it helped with natural features like rivers and man made ones like railways in places. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
