I agree with Kathleen. Given that smartphones are more common than internet connected computers and it is easier to add or change tags on a smartphone than add a long highway at least the locals stand more chance this way.
Cheerio John On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 1:00 PM Kathleen Lu via talk, <talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > On the other hand, if the map of your area is completely blank, it looks > very daunting to a new mapper, who may be discouraged and abandon OSM > (either as too difficult to improve and as too poor quality to use). > The map is constantly changing because roads and other things on the map > are changing in the real world. A city might close off a road and then it > will become a "bad" street. It's easier to delete a bad street than to add > a bunch of streets, especially when you are surveying on foot and don't > have a mouse. > I personally would much rather have a 101% map than a 1% map. > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 9:21 AM Joseph Eisenberg < > joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Re: "OSM map with a one percent of roads is far worse than having 101% >> of the roads mapped with the help of AI with 1% of extras, because >> fixing that 1% is far less work than adding 99% by hand" >> >> I'm not certain this is true. It might be very difficult to find the >> 1% of incorrectly mapped roads; you don't know where to look, and you >> must survey on the ground with GPS, and check each road segment to >> find the 1% that actually are blocked by a fence or gate or don't >> really go through that clump of trees. >> >> In contrast, when 99% are missing it's very obvious when looking at >> the map data. You still have to survey and add the streets, but it may >> actually be faster to get to a complete map of your home neighborhood, >> than trying to find 10 bad streets out of 1000 segments in your >> neighborhood. >> >> Finally, when you look at the map and it looks 100% complete, you >> won't see the need to start mapping and become a totally addicted >> OSMer like you will if your village is only 1% mapped, so we may not >> get the new contributors that we need to actual maintain the data that >> our robot mappers have added. >> >> Joseph >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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