On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:27 PM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would just run some mapping parties, and remember to go for a drink > afterward. They're basically proven effective and shouldn't cost > anything at all to run.
Sure thing... how many people here want to fly in to Fort McMurray, AB to map it? I wonder how many people are going to be able to do that for free. Sorry I don't agree on your statement of "shouldn't cost anything at all to run". My employer subsidizes most of my OSM mapping, but they don't know it. Unfortunately I keep going back to the same places over and over again. I get in a little bit of deviations from the norm when I can, but it's going to take a long time to be able to map all of Northern Alberta this way. On another tangent, if the licensing issues can be settled, we might soon have a base map provided by the Government of Canada upon which to build. This is probably our best avenue to pursue. A base map will get 95% of the roads in the database, and making minor edits and adding new roads can then become the priority. James _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-ca
