[OSM-talk] [talk-au] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

[paul youlten]

34,218 kilometres of beautiful, sunny coastline.

... sounds like you need to organise a huge mapping party...

... or maybe someone should set up a OSM-au holiday company - people
in Northern Europe would pay good money to go on that sort of mapping
adventure.

PY

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/11 Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net>:
>> so we don't need imported data?
>>
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>>
>> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business
>> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009
>> From: paul youlten <paul.youlten at gmail.com>
>> To: Liz <edodd at billiau.net>
>>
>> Liz,
>>
>> The coastline I did back in the "old days" was between Hastings in
>> Sussex and Folkestone in Kent. I did this by walking along the high
>> tide mark with my GPS. Bits of coastline that were inaccessible (e.g:
>> Harbors, cliffs and off shore islands) were done with the assistance
>> of Yahoo Aerial photos.
>
> Ok Paul, when you have enough time and energy to map 34,218 kilometres
> (21,262 mi) of coastline (excluding all offshore islands) of Australia
> let us know, in the mean time we will be making do with the imported
> data we have.
>
> We also don't have access to aerial imagery except a small fraction of
> the 7.8 million sq km of land mass, although with your help/donations
> I'm sure we could possibly get some more.
>
> In short put your money where your mouth is.
>
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