I guess you're right, Lucas. South Africa does not need the TLC that Manning talks about.
Consider that street level maps are usually produced by government agencies. And that most African governments simply do not have the skills. So if we map these cities, it may actually improve tourism, city planning, logistics, property rights, emergency response, civil engineering etc. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo%21_Aerial_Imagery/Coverage On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio <jldoming...@prodevelop.es> wrote: > Yes, > there are lots of people in the first world mapping even the most irrelevant > buildings in their villages, while in the third world there are large cities > with good Yahoo imagery and nobody mapping them. Sad, isn't it? South Africa > does not seem to need much help, by the way. > > Lucas > > > ________________________________ > De: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org en nombre de brendan barrett > Enviado el: mar 30/12/2008 18:03 > Para: talk@openstreetmap.org > Asunto: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone? > > I've only just joined the OSM Talk Mailing list and wanted to respond > to this message... so i've pasted some of it below the jump. 80n... if > you're bored in the evenings, how about thinking far away from home? > South Africa has good aerial photography for the major cities (Yahoo > Imagery)... wanna give us a hand down here? : P > > ____________________________________ > >> 80n wrote: >> In my case I've run out of stuff to map. Can someone build some more >> roads please? ;) > > > To clarify, my immediate area is complete in every direction as far as I can > go before meeting another area that is already mapped. And by complete I > mean all everything down to post boxes but not as far as house numbers. > > As far as Surrey is concerned all towns and large villages are fairly well > mapped. I don't think we can declare it finished yet but it's not far off. > > I don't know how other counties are doing. Are any others near to > completion? > > 80n > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
