[Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:28 -0600, Ian Dees wrote:
>         
>         Give everyone a chance to work in a constructive way and don't expect
>         others to clean the mess bad import left behind.
>         No wonder there are only few motivated mappers in US. In Canada they
>         do a much better job in integrating the community and don't import
>         every shape file blindly just because it's available.
> 
> Not to start a holy war over what community is better, but there
> weren't a whole lot of mappers in the US (at least on talk or talk-us)
> when we started doing the TIGER import...

People were being actively told not to map in the US because we had
TIGER coming and it would replace any work you ended up doing.

The standard OSM user tries to find their street first.  The typical US
OSM experience has gone from, "My street isn't there" to "My street is
crooked".

-- Dave