[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Graham Stewart]

> There is definite room for arguing that it will reduce active
mapping in some situations.

This keeps getting raised and I'm not sure how true it is.

Go and look at some of the areas that are 95-100% complete
according to the ITO analysis:
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main

Did all mapping and surveys in these areas really stop as soon as
all the roads were "done"?
Or did people move onto to adding houses, shops, footpaths,
traffic lights, post boxes, powerlines and an infinite array of
other minutiae?

I look at somewhere like Edinburgh and see a very detailed map
with individual buildings and house numbers.
Around my way I see entire towns that are completely absent from
the map.

If I lived in Edinburgh I'd be looking for fine-grained details
that I could add or correct.
Living where I do I just want to get a skeleton of road coverage
sorted out.

Both are valid activities and benefit the map as a whole.
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