Hi, On 02/02/11 11:24, Steve Bennett wrote:
Certainly that information is of use to someone, but I don't think OSM should try and be all things to all people. For starters, we simply don't have the manpower. In the Australian context, it looks like we might be able to do better than Google Maps, but having more information than Melway/Brisway/... will be a real challenge. Adding on the difficulty of the kinds of things you're talking about (plus everyone else's pet interests, like accessibility, micromapping, ...) is essentially impossible without a massive influx of contributors.
These things need not be, and have never been, global in OSM. If one local community happens to have the manpower locally then it's great if they manage to record all that detail, and we should be very careful not to make decisions that keep them from doing so because we figured that we'd never be able to collect that data for the whole country or the whole world.
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