[OSM-talk] Osmarender 5

[Steve Coast]

On 2 Sep 2007, at 10:28, 80n wrote:
> The point I just made was that it is a trust mechanism.  Maps are  
> not like Wikipedia articles in this respect.  You don't use  
> Wikipedia articles to navigate down long country lanes in the dark  
> in the expectation that there will be a bridge at the end.  People  
> need tools and mechanisms that help them to trust the maps we make.

I think that's an easy distinction, when in fact I do trust wikipedia  
and wikitravel regularly for information that's more important than  
whether a road exists. Not that this point actually opposes your  
argument below:

> If I can see that the map of a small town in the middle of North  
> Dakota was created by someone who actually lived there then I'm  
> more inclined to trust it than if I see that it came from some  
> faceless Government TIGER database.

Unless you're an ambulance crew, 5 or 40 minutes travel in the wrong  
place due to a bad map is the same as 5 minutes wandering around due  
to bad wifi information in wikitravel, or 40 minutes in a bad  
resteraunt.

have fun,

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