[OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Friday 28 July 2006 12:45, Etienne wrote:
> Currently making maps with OSM is quite a skilled process.  If we are to
> get any where near 98% coverage we need to make it easier.  Currently there
> are maybe 50 regular contributors in the UK.  To cover the UK we will need
> more like 500 or 5000 contributors.
>
> Even skilled, concientious and diligent contributors can get it wrong.  The
> very next road to me is named Vaillant Road.  For a long time that was in
> OSM as Valliant Road.  Probably the only person who would spot that error
> is someone who actually lives in that street.
>
> The tools aren't good enough to lower the bar much at the moment, but in
> the longer term we need a lot more contributors and we need a way for
> people with very very local knowledge to easily verify and flag up errors.

That is true Etiene. But we should (as Barnett already stated) wait until we 
at least reach a relatively high amount of base segments.
I think our goals for the next year should be:
 - get all the tools working( you knew I would say that ;-)
 - adding 99% of the Highway segments
 - tagging 99% of these Highway segments (name=,highway=) more is optional
 - adding 80% of the main streets in every big city.
 - creating ways for these 80% main streets
 - tagging tmain street ways (name=,highway=) more is optional
I think we shouldn't even think about lowering the bar before we havn't 
achieved this goal.

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Joerg