[OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

Tony Bowden tony at tmtm.com
Sun Jan 6 01:59:27 GMT 2008


Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> Still, it's an obvious way for
> users to quickly get an idea that they may be able to contribute: in
> areas where there is no existing data, vmap0 can provide a reason for
> people to participate.

I think the key question here is: are users more likely to fix data 
that's wrong, or to add data that's missing?

I don't have an answer to that. I suspect for wikis in general it's the 
first, but moving misplaced roads in OSM is harder than an average wiki 
edit, so I'm even less sure here.

Tony




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