I find it fascinating how much effort you put into the attempt to discredit the paper this is about.
But what you write is ultimately mostly a collection of unrelated trivialities and assumptions that do not actually manage to question the methodology used in the paper. There are aspects you can rightfully criticize about the reasearch work documented in the paper but to do that you would need to look deeper into what the author actually did instead of musing about the motivation for plane trips across the US. I am not really sure what you actually want to say here. You clearly try to discredit the paper cited and you also attack Frederik for linking to it. But if you truly think the paper is nonsense and you know all this stuff so much better why don't you write your own paper pointing out the errors and explaining how things really are? Just criticizing people is cheap if you don't expose yourself by making your own analysis and your own statements others can review and argue about. The only statement beyond the superficial criticism in that regard i can read from what you write is: Mapping in the US is hard. That is of course by definition a subjective statement so no one will seriously be able to argue with you about that. And if you want to know about how to successfully map and build a local mapping community in a large and sparsely populated country and are fed up with the namby-pamby western Europeans who don't know a thing about this maybe talk to the Russians... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk