On 3/15/2012 8:52 AM, Hillsman, Edward wrote:
In the interest of figuring out how to attract more people to participate in OSM, I'd like to see some more discussion of this. Is it generally true that people who work on OSM don't like to map subdivisions? And, if so, why? Because these are home to so many people in the US, it raises a question about the viability of strategies that suggest people start in OSM by mapping their own neighborhoods.
I don't know anything about this specifically. It's interesting that not a single person in those 120 subdivisions was interested in mapping their own subdivision. I have done some onsite surveys of smaller subdivisions (100-400 homes), and can set this up with a camera, video cam, and bike to collect quite a lot of information in a single visit, and the end result is streets with lanes, speed limits, one ways, and house numbers. In this area, since no one else is participating[1], it's just a practical matter to create the base new subdivision information from TIGER since the local governments don't freely give this information. The only followup surveys are quick to clarify obvious errors in the TIGER data.
The subdivision plat idea is new to me, but I'm not sure where I'd find them.
[1] It is notable that likely because of the Apple publicity spike, a single new mapper popped up and added streets in his neighborhood and did a quality job. If this was indeed because of the lure of the 'blank page', our license removal exercise will create many more blank pages to test this theory with.
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