[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Ed Avis]

Richard Fairhurst <richard at ...> writes:

>But if we were to put as much effort into marketing OSM and
>improving our tools as we do into writing and indeed discussing bots, the
>40% areas would be fixed.

If that were true, then it would be no contest.  Given the choice between
spending some effort doing an import and the same effort to recruit a huge army
of mappers who can cover the whole country, any sane person would go for the
mappers.

I think the discussion of imports is based on the view that importing something
(for example street names) gives faster results for the same effort, compared to
manual surveying or recruitment of more mappers who can then do surveys.  It
would allow a quick improvement of the worst-case completion status of OSM
without a huge expenditure of time.  And with the time left over we can then go
out and evangelize OSM to users and contributors *as well*.

It's really not an either-or choice as it is sometimes framed.

We all appreciate your excellent work on Potlatch, BTW.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>