On 26/08/2011, at 1:33 PM, Nick Hocking wrote:
I'm sure all the avid "tracers"out there will deny this,but, I
believe that this is the downside to tracing. Once an area looks
well mapped, there is little incentive for anyone to go there to map
it properly. I'd really like it if all roads that don't have names
yet (in OSM) were just deleted. Then II'd be much more inclined to
drive there and collect all the infomation.
If a road doesn't have a name, then it shows up in the No-names render
- that should be enough incentive to go there.
When I went to Dubbo a couple of weeks ago, I printed off the no-names
map specifically to get some names. A couple of the roads I had
previously traced myself from Bing prior to going.
Also, on my last trip I did as much tracing from Bing as I could
before I went, then got names on the way. For example, prior to my
trip, Peterborough (South Australia) only had the main roads passing
through. I traced all the streets prior to travel, then collected as
many street names as I could on the way through (there are still a few
names to collect). I didn't have time to drive every street, so if I
hadn't done the tracing first, I would have had to leave Peterborough
with no streets (maybe doing one or two streets only on the way
through).
Mark P.
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