[Openstreetmap] Re: Workshop: Map the Isle of White

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 03:54:43PM -0000, Jim Ley wrote:
> "Petter Reinholdtsen" <pere at hungry.com> wrote in message 
> news:2flhd9y3z8k.fsf at saruman.uio.no...
> > I collected GPS points for Lødingen in an hour, and draw the map for
> > it in a few hours more, so I suspect a week for Isle of White might be
> > too much. :)
> Maps with features also look a lot neater, and are more what people who've 
> grown up with the OS maps expect.  It'd be great if we could capture all 
> these things.

It would make sense for those driving around the island to have someone
else with them to note interesting features as they pass them.  I can't
drive through a town hitting buttons on a laptop for phone box, post
box, tied house, free house, shitty theme pub, library, school ...

As for what people expect from maps - *I* use maps to find places to
wander in the hills (so need lots of detail, showing contours, crags,
bogs, wooded areas ...) and to get me from London to those places (so
only need major roads apart from for the last couple of miles).  We're
good at the second of those.  We suck at the former, because that
requires a level of intelligence and just can't be automated.  Blitzing
one small area at a time is probably the best way to suck less at this.

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