I would agree with this too; A fuller map will greatly increase usage and visibility. However I don't think that a bot is necessarily the way to go.
What would be useful is a simple way for users to specify a bounding box/polygon and download an OSM file with the OS data (or OS updates to OSM data such as adding a name where one does not exist), which they can then manually check and upload as a changeset. This would allow data to be quickly imported semi-automatically in areas which are blank in osm, without the risk of a bot overwriting data one someones' patch. Andy On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:00:18 +0000, Kevin Peat <ke...@kevinpeat.com> wrote: > I agree with you 100% on this. I think if OSM is street-level complete > (preferably with postcodes as well) then it will be picked up by a lot more > developers for their iPhone and Android apps and the amount of feedback we > could get would be a 100 times greater than now. A standardised, OSM > hosted, > bug reporting api could also be offered to developers so they don't end up > building their own versions of MapDust. > > Kevin > > > > > On 4 February 2011 01:14, Kai Krueger <kakrue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Also, we are getting some of the most comprehensive on the ground >> verification and improvement reports from applications like the Sat-Nav >> Skobbler bugs with MapDust. The more complete the map is, the more people >> will use things like that and give feedback on errors. >> _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
