2009/10/3 Gervase Markham <gerv-gm...@gerv.net>: > On 03/10/09 00:49, DavidD wrote: >> Just start making the decisions and build the thing on top of OSM. It >> wouldn't even be that difficult to start off. Just take planet.osm and >> strip "unapproved" tags and build up from there. > > So OSM is in a state where it only becomes usefully consistent if you > throw away a lot of the information? That doesn't sound like the best > use of the time of the mappers who put it there.
Obviously nobody wants to spend a day gathering data then editing for that work to go to waste. That's the incentive for people to get onboard. If you can show actual real benefits then people will start investing time. Once you have people you can develop better methods that throw away less data. More importantly you can start building the structures and hierarchies that are arguably needed to produce a consistent set of tags. These things are not going to appear out of nowhere. If that isn't good enough what other method is there? How do you get from where OSM is now to the goal? Until someone starts coming up with ideas that have some connection to reality this will get nowhere. At the moment it is not much more than a bunch of people yelling "this sucks" every 10 minutes. -- DavidD _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk