On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Daniel Sabo <daniels...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, if you can furnish me with an army of bed ridden mappers to trace all > the highways in >the United States I'd concede the point. But I don't think there are nearly >enough people of >your mindset to get the job done, and not having an OSM that's usable as a >street map >detracts from my enjoyment of mapping as much as having an imported road >network >detracts from yours.
I think it's clear that there are different types of people who enjoy contributing for different reasons, and are "inspired" or otherwise by different levels of completeness. I had a friend who enthusiastically spent evenings riding around the city with a GPS, taking photos, in order to map them. At that stage, the map was too incomplete to even interest me. Later, when aerial imagery became available and the map was reaching a decent level of usefulness, I became more interested in doing tracing, and a little surveying. I would hypothesise that there many more people interested in (and capablo of) filling in details in a fairly complete map, than in GPS surveying for a blank map. But that's just a hypothesis. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
