[OSM-talk] using the crowd to label OSM

[David Dean]

Hey,

I've got plenty of those I could scan in. You want?

- David

On 13/11/2007, Colin Marquardt <colin at marquardt-home.de> wrote:
> 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
>
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