[OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

[Hakan Tandogan]

80n wrote:
> There's some anecdotal evidence that seeding an area with some data 
> encourages local contributors.  If this is actually true then loading 
> vmap0 would be a good thing.

Seeding with some 7000 kilometers of travel data and the rough locations 
of about 100 major cities worked for Turkey.

By now we have a lot of people who map the bigger cities. Before the 
seeding, there were only three people who uploaded anything at all in 
that area.

> I think it would be a good thing to load vmap0 data for any area where 
> there is currently no data at all.

The idea that seeding roads that have no other data nearby (say, 100 
kilometers or so) sounds really interesting, that way, we would at least 
have a rough skeleton of the road network.


Regards,
Hakan

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