[OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion

[Dave Stubbs]

On 17/09/2007, John Baker <rovastar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: John Baker <rovastar at gmail.com>
> Date: 17 Sep 2007 13:10
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion
> To: Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com>
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> I still don't see anything illegal with what I am propsing it is a totally
> different case to the 192 one. However maybe a little more caution with
> posting results online. Maybe there is another database resource then that
> has offical street names in it.



>From what I can see of your idea, it would basically require posting the
list of streets that were missing along with their rough location. You could
make this list and then not do anything with it, but that wouldn't really
help as none of the mappers would know what was on it and that there was a
street near them missing. I'm guessing the RM would object to this list
being posted :-(
I think that if this comprehensive datasource existed, someone would have
replied by now, which means that it probably doesn't exist.

Unfortunately the most complete free datasource for London street names that
I know of is Open Street Map.


Anyway I am not going to make up a whole site for this and come cap in hand
> to you after a year.
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> I offered help and a solution to what I see is as a large problem with
> this project.
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> You give me the list of "official" street names in a given area and I will
> do the rest. And the only advice is you need to do more work yourself before
> you can help us out.



I think you're asking for something we don't have. And you're suggesting a
source that will probably have licensing issues.


If you do not have all the streets in you map project how can you ever hope
> of it being the success you guys want. Once you start having cities that
> have all the streets in *then* it can become popular. But I cannot see how
> I/anyone can use/recommend using this project as we never know when a city
> has a complete listing of streets. I would have thought you would have
> wanted a more complete city but apparently many here do not.



We want a complete city, country, world. We're not entirely doing this for
fun you know... there is a problem that this kind of data isn't freely
available. That's part of what OSM is trying to put right.
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