2010/2/22 SteveC <st...@asklater.com>: > > On Feb 21, 2010, at 18:57, Martin Koppenhoefer > <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2010/2/21 SteveC <st...@asklater.com>: >>> Sure. In Germany you have this amazing community where there's a >>> stamptish around every corner. But out here it's much harder and we >>> need these easier tools to build the map. >> >> >> thing is that you can't build a crowd-sourced map when missing the >> crowd. There is no "easy" shortcut. >> > > Was that meant to disagree or agree with what I said or what?
I'd say it was pointing out, that IMHO your argumentation doesn't hold. Easier tools are certainly a good thing, but without a community it is all nothing. Whoever wants to push OSM should in the first place strengthen the community. The more mappers you have the better it is. Emphasis on _mappers_. Otherwise we will be in a situation like the proprietary map providers: even with loads of feedback they are not able to update their maps in time (it takes them years to check and correct already known errors). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
