[OSM-talk] Megastar

[Nick Black]

On 9/6/06, Nick Hill <nick at nickhill.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello Ben
>
> There are around 10,000 trackpoints which I have used as the basis of
> most streets in central Lewisham. There are also a similar number of
> trackpoints in Ladywell fields where someone has presumably been playing
> football with the GPS receiver logging their movement to high resolution.
>
> see 51.45951/-0.0171212
>
>
> Lets consider two activities:
> a) Playing football in Ladywell fields with GPS set to max sample rate
>
> b) Systematically cycling the streets of Lewisham , noting road names
> and features, at a GPS sample rate adequate for the needs, then sitting
> at home, marking in and labeling streets, one-ways, bus lanes.
>
> If a user was to choose one of the two activities, which activity would
> yield the highest score in the competition?

Yep - reminds me of the discussion we had on the list about
qualification for being an OSM member - 10,000 points in the middle of
pacific, 10,000 edits of the same segment etc.  Still, drawing
attention to people who arent active on the list is a good thing.

Nick
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> Ben Robbins wrote:
> > I noticed that megastars have been awarded to the most hardcore of OSM
> > members.  1,000,000 track points is a huge amount so congratulations to
> > them.  I definatly think they should have some recognision for the
> > work.  I noticed the image used is kinda lame though.  Didn't think it
> > was worth its name.  I attached some different ones. (link)  Would it be
> > posible to have different colours that can gradually be obtained?!...  I
> > think setting targets for people is always a good motivator.
>
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