[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[SteveC]

There are tons of things. People drive in the US so pubs are difficult to arrange things around. Mapping in the US is boring because of the big gridded cities. I map much less in the US than the UK. It's not just that there are roads there already, which by the way is a good thing because I have sat for hours correcting them against aerial.

It's just not that simple to say imports killed it.

Steve

stevecoast.com

On Jun 10, 2011, at 8:15, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> As in, "A comparative study of the development of the OSM community 
>> in  <X> in the standard universe where data has been imported, 
>> and in parallel universe P281/304-II where all other factors are 
>> unchanged but no data has been imported"?
> 
> I'm sure Muki's working on it. ;)
> 
> My contention is that the US community is still struggling with such basic
> issues because it didn't have the shared experience of creating a map from
> scratch, whereas the UK and Germany, largely import-free, have strong
> communities built out of this experience.
> 
> This might be wrong, and if the US's problems spring from something other
> than the big import, I'd be very interested to know what. The old canard of
> "but the US is so _big_" doesn't count :)
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_population_density).
> 
> cheers
> Richard
> 
> 
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