On 9 June 2011 17:53, Graham Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you import data into an area that doesn't already have an active >> community, the community will spring up more slowly or not at all. > > But that logic suggests that we should actively *discourage* people from > doing any mapping, as an overly complete map discourages "community". > > In reality there is still plenty to do in areas that have achieved 100% > road coverage. I strongly doubt that the UK community will disintegrate > if we ever get the whole country close to 100% roads. And I don't think > that fear should hinder us from trying to get to that point. > > >> ..Worcester was growing >> nicely until the OSSV fairies arrived: there's still a little activity, >> but the rich map is no longer growing at the rate it was. > > I took a look out of interest. Worcester is a mass of grey roads: > http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=117&lat=52.19568481654745&lon=-2.2034480483935286&zoom=13
According to OSM Mapper Worcester has been developing nicely over a couple of years. Fyi, the most active mapper is this srbrook. "Mapper since: 14 October 2009 at 20:30 (over 1 year ago). Description: I'm Steve and have been mapping in the south Worcester, UK area since October 2009. For more details of what I've been up to see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Srbrook The second most active in Jenuk1985 who joined in 2008 and stopped editing in the area over a year ago but is now busy to the west of B'ham. The third most active mapper who again stopped editing in the area over a year ago is called Richard and seems to be closely involved in Potlatch! Here are the stats for the top 10 contributors in the town: srbrook 1565 0 1565 Jenuk1985 661 0 661 Richard 397 0 397 iccaldwell 164 0 164 Ted Pottage 151 0 151 LivingWithDragons 58 0 58 Steve Chilton 56 0 56 Higgy 55 0 55 i4one 41 0 41 Phil M 38 0 38 These Don't look like an 'OSSV fairy' to me. Or possibly there something is being kept from us :) Regards, Peter > > So there doesn't seem much evidence of "OSSV fairies" there. (Or at > least not with proper source tag). > But Worcester does seem to have a nice detailed map. Plenty of foot and > cycle paths, parks etc most of which won't have come from any OS > product. > Have the local mappers actually stopped mapping or have they just moved > onto nearby areas that are more in need of attention? > > > Ed said: >> It can help us to boost our map from 'excellent in parts, >> almost blank in others' to 'usable everywhere, excellent in many places'. >> Then >> as OSM becomes widely adopted, mapping parties and other contribution become >> a >> much easier proposition: rather than 'help out with this geeky new hobby' it >> becomes 'hey! you can contribute to the map you are already using!'. > > Complete agree. > For every 1000 users getting taken on a 20 mile wild goose chase by > their satnav I'd be willing to bet that 999 are left cursing the name of > OpenStreetMap and maybe one decides to become a contributor and do > something about it. That's not how you win people over! > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
