<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Richard Weait <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Mills <<a href="mailto:nathan@nwacg.net">nathan@nwacg.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 4/2/2012 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:<br>
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>> I offer TIGER as counterevidence. It's imperfect but a great starting<br>
>> point for local mappers, especially those without a GPS setup.<br>
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> This is definitely true for those of us in areas with few mappers.<br>
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</div>For some of you. I've had conversations with approximately equal<br>
numbers of mappers who feel as you do, and potential mappers who look<br>
at TIGER and say, "Finished. Nothing for me to do." And there are<br>
those who arrive and look at TIGER and say, "I have to start by fixing<br>
that mess? No thanks."</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then OSM is doing a bad job at messaging. It's no longer just a road network project, it's a map project. We should show that there's other data to add beyond a semi-complete TIGER import. If you show a new person <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">openstreetmap.org</a> and they say to you "done!" and move on, then you should ask them if their house, their school, their zoo, their supermarket, etc. are on the map and to add them if they're not. If you're not there, then we should think about how to have the website ask for you.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let's stop blaming people trying to improve the map by adding data in the right way and start looking at ways to help those that are distracted by all that data.</div></div>