On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michal Migurski <m...@stamen.com> wrote: >> OpenStreetMaps has its own data but it is provided by a community that does >> not have as much momentum as Wikipedia, even New York City data is pretty >> much incomplete[1] > > This was in response to the out-of-date NYC page on the wiki, and Russ Nelson > set the commenter straight in the thread. Still, the perception of lower > quality or at least incompleteness is lurking out there.
Not really relevant, but this point made me remember about when I first came across OSM and had learned what it was about, I was expecting empty patches in my city, but when I looked at the map all the streets were there it looked complete to me so I didn't bother looking into contributing. It was only a year later that I rediscovered OSM and realised that even though the streets were mapped, there were all sorts of other features that I could contribute like bike paths, drinking fountains, public toilets, local parks... I wonder if it was called OpenWorldMap rather than OpenStreetMap when I first came across it, if this wouldn't have constrained myself to solely streets when I first looked at the map... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
