[OSM-talk] using the crowd to label OSM

[Colin Marquardt]

tim <chippy2005 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 12, 2007 1:12 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I then thought of asking jeepney drivers
>> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepney] to help me with  tagging
>> streetnames.  These drivers do not know much about mapping or even the
>> Internet.  So I printed out an area of OSM (the jeepney routes they
>> travel) and asked a group drivers to label them.

> That's great!
>
> source:jeepney driver
>
> Would be nice to see the map that they sketched on - could be cool
> giving the completed osm back to them, although I bet they have all
> the maps they need in their heads :)

A photo of a scribbled-on street maze combined with a rendered map
from that data would also make a very good image of the week.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Featured_images

Cheers
  Colin