SK53 <sk53.osm@...> writes: > many contributors do it not purely to add stuff to OSM, but for a multitude of other reasons: > to learn more about the places around where one lives; > to get out; > to meet-up with like minded people; > to get some exercise; > to go to the less obvious places; > to avoid stultifying in front of a screen; > to collect some data for some other purpose. > > As long as people are motivated by one or all of these reasons, I see no reason why they won't contribute to OSM. I suspect it's a fallacy that people only contribute to OSM because other sources of OpenData aren't up to scratch. If we have competition it is with other types of volunteer-collected data, not with things like OS Open Data. OSM will never achieve the consistency of coverage that OSGB do, so there will always be applications and use-cases which will prefer to use data of this sort
Only up to a point. I don’t expect OSM to be better for everyone, but I would stop contributing and find other outlets for my spare time if I ever feel the ability to be useful (and keep other sources of maps and map data from being complacent) goes away; I have in fact not mapped bus routes for some time because I haven’t seen enough reward there. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
