Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> To be honest, I think that GPS traces are horribly overrated and >> will only further diminish in importance for OSM. I wouldn't spend >> a lot of time reinventing anything to do with GPS traces. > > Why's that? > > For those of you in countries with NMAs that release things, or in urban > areas where there's satellite imagery, maybe you can do without them. But in > 95% of the British land mass there is no other way of mapping. > > Personally I'd like to see _more_ emphasis on going out there with a GPS, > and less on "oh, we'll find an import" or "oh, you can do it from satellite > imagery". OSM as an agglomeration of imports is little more than one of > those terrible "geodata catalogs" that seem to be discussed interminably on > OSGeo mailing lists.
Hear hear. David _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
