[OSM-talk] Quality assurance strategy?

[David Earl]

On 31/07/2008 14:17, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes:
>  
>> What you're speaking of is a huge amount of work if one wants to do  
>> it properly. I have no doubts that we'll manage to map the world  
>> once, but will we be able to map it again every 5 years, essentially,  
>> to verify? I don't know.

I've seen a much greater willingness to keep things up to date than to 
generate new data in the first place. Now that we have a "complete" area 
for Cambridge and environs, I've noticed that changes to detail I become 
aware of have most often already been made: two pubs/hotels have changed 
name, for example, and when I came to fix those, they'd already been done.

In rural areas, this might be trickier, as the density of people to 
notice a change is lower.

BTW, a big change that is sweeping the UK this year is the closure of 
about a quarter of the nation's post offices. Lists will be published, 
and we should make sure we deal with these.

David