<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well, fortunately as it's a mailing list not a website poll I can make my own answer up :-)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I generally wouldn't go to any great effort to try to "support" them, but if I spotted an error and there was a simple enough mechanism to point it out, I might.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Considering that I know there are mechanisms available, but they're just not so simple or obvious, I'll have to go with "not support".</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 8 Nov 2007, at 22:14, Peter Miller wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Here is a poll. It is the first one I have seen on OSM, but I hope it will get a good range of responses.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">If a large commercial mapping company (TeleAtlas, Ordnance Survey, Navteq etc) offered a high quality on-line service where you could enter corrections and additions (including new geometry and features) supported by excellent aerial photography, other resources and recognition would you:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Support them because:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">1) Bad maps annoy you and you want them right in your area regardless of commercial concerns<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">2) You like the idea of gaining recognition for your work in an area from a major organisation<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">3) You get paid a bounty by them for every valid error you find or addition you make<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">4) You have completed OSM for your area and are at a loose end<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">5) You already support them and report errors to TeleAtlas or whoever when you spot them and aren’t about to stop<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Or… would you *not* support them because:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">6) You have better things to do with your time, like OSM<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">7) Commercial maps are evil and should die sometime soon and are certainly not getting any help from you<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">8) Sod them, they should pay someone to do it<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">For the record my answer is 5) <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Thanks<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" 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