[talk-au] Map a Town Register

[Paul Zagoridis]

Maybe the register could be started and the funds made available to a
peer-reviewed mapper some way. E.g. if I volunteer to do a town, then I'd
need to submit 3 favourable recommendations of my work by other Australian
OSM'ers.

Eventually it would be a reputation system, but for now it can be manual.

I'm guessing we can use the tools to review other mappers work. I know I've
made the occasional correction.

Regards

Paul

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-----Original Message-----
From: talk-au-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-au-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Liz
Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2008 10:26 AM
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Map a Town Register

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Darrin Smith wrote:
> Futher thinking about this had me wondering just how much latent
> interest for these kinds of maps there might be out there and whether
> one could setup a 'map a town' register where people pledge amounts to
> get the town mapped on OSM and then when it reaches a threshold to fund
> someone you call in the donations and do it. More of an issue here than
> overseas I think due to our very sparse population, if there's 1
> serious mapper every 100,000 people then that's only about 200 to cover
> all of .au and 1,500 for the .uk. And it's so far for many of us to get
> to areas relatively unmapped.

This is an interesting idea, but my other half has mentioned a potential 
problem here which I would express in terms of the variation of mapping 
skills evident on OSM so far. So you would need to have a method which would

not produce fiction but good quality results.


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