[talk-au] North Star Award
Liz
edodd at billiau.net
Sun Aug 23 10:41:08 BST 2009
Another Eurocentric Award ??
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Awards
North Star
The North Star has been awarded to people who have either completed all the
roads within a District, Small County, Large town or City; or for people that
have solved a big problem for everyone within OSM.
I would think that a lot of Australian mappers have completed the equivalent
of a large town singlehanded
(as usual the words on the wiki aren't well expressed - is this for doing it
singlehanded or putting the last piece in?)
and as we don't navigate by the North Star, we could self-award ourselves
Southern Cross Awards, and we'd be happy for Southern African and South
Americans to join in too
we could be more precise and suggest that a mapper has put in 90% of the roads
in an area of so many square kms??
Owing to the lack of OSM I've actually been reading some books and found one
writer noting that even the use of a Mercator projection is Eurocentric and
they weren't talking about OSM.
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