[talk-au] North Star Award

[Liz]

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.