[OSM-talk] Fwd: Getting postal workers to do the leg (wheel) work

[Jack Challen]

Same again, sorry, I'll catch on soon...

On 13/10/06, Jack Challen <jackchallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/10/06, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
> <openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
> >  - do we have to ask his employer if he accepts to have all
> >    the routes published his employee are taking.
>
> Good point.
> I don't have an immediate solution for that; my gut feeling is it'd be
> no more company property than getting the postman to jot down his
> route, or perhaps following him on his morning rounds...

Another alternative, which wouldn't (IMHO) be as good (visits to
smaller roads _much_ less frequent).... Give dataloggers to Courier
Van drivers -- in the UK, at least, quite a few of them are
self-employed, so the data would be theirs to share.


jack