On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Erik Johansson <e...@kth.se> wrote: > 2010/8/8 Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-l...@deelkar.net>: > > Am 08.08.2010 16:59, schrieb John Smith: > >> On 9 August 2010 00:58, Erik Johansson <e...@kth.se> wrote: > >>> Australia 2 people per km^2 > >>> Sweden 21 people per km^2 > >> > >> Canada is ~3 people per km^2... > > > > You seem to forget that the most interesting Data (to most people) is > > also where the people are. > > I formally invite you to come to Sweden, which I find a pretty > interesting place. > > There are really nice views here, if enough European OSM:er spend > their vacation here we could probably map Sweden in 5 years? A great > place to start i Härjedalen beautiful mountains and lots of mapping to > do, even in areas where there are no people within 3 hours of travel. > So the interesting thing about these places (for most people) is that > there are few very ppl. > > You can put those "blank spots" in Austria/Germany in perspective, and > get to map some really low density places; e.g. try to figure out the > name of a thousand lakes, mountains or the footpath you are on, it's > not like there are signs. :-) > > Härjedalen with a few blank spots: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=62.546&mlon=12.542&zoom=9 > > Even Stockholm has quite a few of those blankspots. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.32&lon=18.07&zoom=9 > > So Dirk and Cartinus when are you coming over to map Sweden? > > > /Erik who has spent lots of time in blank spots. >
I hear Fredrikk (among others) dislikes imports, and I hear his argument that it might work discouraging on people to have large areas imported. But here in the Brazilian community we see imports as a necessary way to improve map coverage, which in turn can increase reqruitment. Brazil is a country the size of europe, but still we are only a handful contributors, some of which (myself included) are not native Brazilians. This discussion started with wether or not the proposed change of license could go on because of some imported data somewhere was in an uncompatible license. I can with this confirm that at least 99% of imported data in Brazil is compatible with the change of license, and most of that also is compatible with the even more extreme (but currently not considered) Public Domain license. If people from the "overcrowded" European communities, (or anywhere else for that matter), want to map blank spots like Erik invites to, than Brazil must be the paradise for you. Only a few regions of Brazil have local contributions, Yahoo coverage is limited to a few metropolitan areas, and the majority of imported data is crude, with low node density. Just a few places have a high detail level, so even in the mapped areas there are much to do. Just browse to Copacobana in Rio de Janeiro, the streets are there, but hardly any shops, restaurants, bars, hotels, parking spaces, etc. Running out of things to map in Hamburg doesn't mean the map is completed. Actually, after I imported the municipal data of Vitoria, the state capital of Espirito Santo, Brazil, I have noticed an increase in registrations of users in that area. This are people that might fill in the data that I couldn't import, correct inaccuracies in the import (old data?), and map the areas outside the limit of the import. In Brazil, imports helps reqruiting, and is encouraging to the people living in the region, but feel free to contribute with some of your survey data next time you visit Brazil. Aun
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