Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> writes: > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 18:51 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> 2011/4/11 Dermot McNally <derm...@gmail.com>: >>> OSM is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. >>> If OSM is to survive at all it will be among bearded hippies too >>> behind the times to have discovered Waze. OSM continues to >>> decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save OSM from its >>> fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, OSM is >>> dead. >> >> >> While I guess this was meant to be satirical there is indeed a problem >> with active contributors not growing any more since 17/08/2009 > > well I was very active, but there is nothing left to do
Really? Nothing left to do? I ran some quick checks on a local copy of about 4 US states and found that 74% of it HAD NEVER BEEN EDITED after the initial Tiger import. That means it's UNROUTABLE in most cases, due to the way the data was imported county-by-county. Meanwhile, in the last month or so I've seen discussions on the tagging list about surveillance cameras, bicycle shops, and oil wells. I'm not saying OSM shouldn't include those things eventually, but I do think that routable roads are a benefit to far more users. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
