34,218 kilometres of beautiful, sunny coastline. ... sounds like you need to organise a huge mapping party...
... or maybe someone should set up a OSM-au holiday company - people in Northern Europe would pay good money to go on that sort of mapping adventure. PY On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/12/11 Elizabeth Dodd <ed...@billiau.net>: >> so we don't need imported data? >> >> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- >> >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business >> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 >> From: paul youlten <paul.youl...@gmail.com> >> To: Liz <ed...@billiau.net> >> >> Liz, >> >> The coastline I did back in the "old days" was between Hastings in >> Sussex and Folkestone in Kent. I did this by walking along the high >> tide mark with my GPS. Bits of coastline that were inaccessible (e.g: >> Harbors, cliffs and off shore islands) were done with the assistance >> of Yahoo Aerial photos. > > Ok Paul, when you have enough time and energy to map 34,218 kilometres > (21,262 mi) of coastline (excluding all offshore islands) of Australia > let us know, in the mean time we will be making do with the imported > data we have. > > We also don't have access to aerial imagery except a small fraction of > the 7.8 million sq km of land mass, although with your help/donations > I'm sure we could possibly get some more. > > In short put your money where your mouth is. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
