[OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

[SteveC]

* @ 28/07/06 12:01:18 PM openstreetmap at ostertag.name wrote:
> 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.

I think this is an interesting point. Perhaps we could look at getting
highly skilled people who arn't yet interested (say developers) involved
as well as just generally lowering the barrier to everyone. I'm not sure
how you'd do it... I think the main barrier is not usability right now,
its GPS ownership. I think more people would go for it if they had a GPS
alreadt, I know a fair few people who are interested and would probably
get hooked but don't want to buy a GPS just for this in case it turns
out to be super boring.

Perhaps we could do something viral like getting everyone here to get
one friend to map some stuff.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/