On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> Really? Are there people who say "I'd rather not map because there is no > consensus on the roads tagging"? Are those people the 20,000 missing mappers > in the US? > Yes. I'm one of them. I jumped in with both feet, when I first found OSM. I lived in Canada at the time, and I walked around a village of 1,000 people on my birthday and learned how to turn those GPS tracks into roads. But years later, I still don't know what "the right way" is (because the community still doesn't agree on what that means), and I don't feel like wasting hours of my life doing something that will likely be undone because my idea of the way things should be doesn't match whatever eventual consensus emerges (or because the next person to come along thinks things should be done differently). That these questions STILL haven't been settled after this many years leaves me with doubts that OSM will ever be anything more than a toy in this country. I keep mostly listening to this list, hoping for the day when I'm proven wrong, because I want to work for a project with these goals, but not if I'm going to waste my time because nobody can make the most basic of decisions: how roads should be described. Scott -- Scott Rollins, <organ...@gmail.com> Portsmouth, VA
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