[OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

[Alex Mauer]

Tony Bowden wrote:
> 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 would suspect the former here even for OSM, simply because it seems
like a smaller task to make corrections ("oh, I'll just fix this one
road that I just drove on with my GPS") than to start from scratch.
("What, I have to map my entire city/state/country!?")

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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