[OSM-talk] urban surveying speed - can it be estimated as population per hour?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Surely it would not be copyright infringement to, say, take an OS map 
> and cross off the streets that had been mapped on OSM, thus making it 
> easy to see what was not completed (at least up to OS standard)?

What you paint in your paid-for OS map and where you walk afterwards 
(with your GPS on) is entirely at your discretion.

> Would that be any different from doing the same thing electronically, 
> say with a google maps mashup?

There's a tool somewhere in the depths of out SVN repository that will 
give you an OSM overlay on Google Earth, and is very suitable to get an 
idea of the level of completion of a certain area.

As long as you use these tools to plan a route (that leads you to places 
where OSM lacks mapping) you're fine - route planning is what they make 
the stuff for, and certainly covered by their terms of use. Don't, 
however, be tempted to virtualize the "executing a planned route" step 
as well ;-)

As long as you go to a place with a GPS and notebook and upload your 
data to OSM afterwards, it is of no relevance how you got there and why 
you chose that particular place.

Unless perhaps the place is one where people aren't supposed to go at 
all. There's a military base here in Karlsruhe and we're eagerly waiting 
for their next visitor day to get the tracks on the compound mapped ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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