Some folks were looking at connectivity errors systematicallyfrom early July, and things accelerated substantively when Martijn released an MR challenge.<div><br></div><div>It's likely that nearly 100K connectivity errors were cleared last year within the US (remember those horrible county boundaries ;-))<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org" target="_blank">m@rtijn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Less, we started the connectivity challenge late November of 2012.<br>
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Alex Barth <<a href="mailto:alex@mapbox.com">alex@mapbox.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Holy shit. This is awesome. 70,000 connectivity errors. In how much time? Something like three months?<br>
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> On Jan 10, 2013, at 12:36 AM, Martijn van Exel <<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org">m@rtijn.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> We've seen some great progress from MapRoulette users fixing the<br>
>> almost 70,000 connectivity errors in the US. Returning from my<br>
>> Christmas break, they were all but eliminated! Great, but we did not<br>
>> really have the next challenge ready yet. So for now, we expanded the<br>
>> scope of the connectivity challenge to include Mexico and Canada, so<br>
>> we have over 57,000 fresh connectivity errors for you to sink your<br>
>> teeth into. So stop reading and start fixing, over at<br>
>> <a href="http://maproulette.org/" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/</a>!<br>
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>> PS the next challenge is almost done, we could also do a parallel<br>
>> MapRoulette for that, what do you think?<br>
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