[Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

[Simon Poole]

Am 03.06.2014 17:48, schrieb Mike N:
> > Further the area not being surveyed implies that all the value add that
> > we can offer a cyclist is not there (surface, lanes, shoulders etc).
>
>  Blocking bike routes until "everything is surveyed" is not realistic
> - we'd need to map every parking spot with a potential car door zone,
> every storm drain that may cause a road hazard, as well as every road
> width in addition to the surface, lanes and shoulders.   Blocking bike
> routes only ensures that TIGER deserts remain as deserts for any
> number of years until someone randomly happens to take interest, if
> ever. Having a bike route will motivate people to start with armchair
> improvements and follow with incremental improvements to the roads
> that the bike route cover.
>
I was looking at this the other way around: these routes are a good
opportunity to motivate people out there and get them to survey the
length of the route in person.

Instead of yet another armchair mapping exercise.

Naturally not requiring everything to be perfect, but at least it would
be better than pure armchair mapping and more aligned with why bicycle
routes exist in the first place. The handful of approved routes I looked
at don't seem to be particularly long (aka at most  couple of 100 miles)
and could easily be surveyed by a dozen or two mappers without undue
effort and completed in the upcoming months.

And provide some show casing of why OSM is better, instead of worse.

Simon