[OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion

[Richard Fairhurst]

John Baker wrote:

> 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 already have a solution. We've licensed it from vast expense at  
Wikipedia. It's really ground-breaking.

How it works is this:

1. You look at the map
2. You discover something missing from the map
3. You click 'Edit'
4. You add it to the map
5. Repeat (for infinite number of monkey^H^H^H^H^Happers) until world complete

We generally feel this is a more efficient model than the alternative,  
which is

1. You look at the map
2. You discover something missing from the map
3. You bitch about it on the mailing list

largely because experience proves that the "you add it to the map"  
stage is really useful in getting things added to the map.

cheers
Richard