There's some anecdotal evidence that seeding an area with some data
encourages local contributors. If this is actually true then loading vmap0
would be a good thing.
A newbie faced with a blank continent would find it quite intimidating to
get started. If they see some data, especially data that they can relate
to, then it gives them a clue about how to proceed.
IMHO low quality data is always preferable to no data. In the early days a
lot of the UK motorway network was mapped from landsat imagery. Since then
it has been refined many, many times. I'm sure every mile of it is now very
accurately drawn based on multiple tracklogs. Stepwise refinement is valid
and proven way of achieving our goals.
I think it would be a good thing to load vmap0 data for any area where there
is currently no data at all.
80n
On Jan 6, 2008 8:28 AM, Alex Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tony Bowden wrote:
> > Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >> Still, it's an obvious way for
> >> users to quickly get an idea that they may be able to contribute: in
> >> areas where there is no existing data, vmap0 can provide a reason for
> >> people to participate.
> >
> > I think the key question here is: are users more likely to fix data
> > that's wrong, or to add data that's missing?
>
> I would suspect the former here even for OSM, simply because it seems
> like a smaller task to make corrections ("oh, I'll just fix this one
> road that I just drove on with my GPS") than to start from scratch.
> ("What, I have to map my entire city/state/country!?")
>
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"
>
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