Hi James and All, I can understand your frustration, from what I have seen you have contributed a hell of a lot of data and it's obvious from your comments that you wish other to help out.
I'm in pretty much the same situation, I'm the only person mapping South of Calgary/West of Highway 2. This is a lot of area (containing some beautiful mountains) and at this rate will probably never be complete. However I am still optimistic for OSM. This data will never disappear, it can only get more complete.... we will 'win' in the end. As to getting more involved, have you considered 'press ganging'? ;-) My local MD (Crowsnest Pass) have some funding to do some signage on local footpaths/hikes. I am trying to get them interested in the mapping/GPS maps side of thing as well. If this happens we get a few more people involved. Also the local ATV/Snowmobile crowd have produced maps in the past. If I can get a couple of these people interested we will get a whole load of trails. My target for next summer is to be able to drop a local trails map at the staging posts for ATV/Snowmobiles, with a map on one side and OSM blub on the other. Many people travel quite some distance to go off roading, it's quite possible that they'll get hooked on the idea and go off and map their own town.... possibly even Fort McMurray. Just remember, real achievements take time.... Cheers, Simon (aka. Mungewell) PS. On the topic of Mapping parties. Saturday August 23rd - Crowsnest Pass and Area. Looking to complete the mapping of Blairmore and hopefully fill in some of Coleman/surrounding areas. Met at Stone's Throw Cafe from 9.00am (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.607806&mlon=-114.437315&zoom=16) If people want to make a weekend of it, I can provide accomodation in Blairmore and perhaps we can head down to Waterton (or somewhere) on the Sunday. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-ca
