[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

Henry Gomersall heng at cantab.net
Sun Jun 12 15:13:33 BST 2011


On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 15:06 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote:
> The discussion has ignored the basic problem of not having enough
> mappers on the ground collecting data - so we are back to having a
> quick technical fix, using other people's data, which threatens to
> perpetuate us as a closed group of geeks.

Perhaps the solution is to imbue the bots with a sense of community
spirit. Though this might lead to problems down the line when the bots
get upset at the number of human contributors undermining their bot
community.

cheers,
hen




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