[OSM-talk] Contribution graph

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've pondered about this before but I came to the conclusion that
> mapping is a little different than adding knowledge to a wiki. You can
> always add map details by travelling about, or based on new sets of
> data imported, or new aerial imagery available. However once your
> knowledge on a topic has been written it's unlikely you will learn
> much more on that topic and the number of topics you know about will
> possibly also be limited.
>
> As a veteran of approaching 10,000 edits on Wikipedia, I can tell you that
most of them came from outside my own personal knowledge. See a gap,
research it, write about it. That's kind of the appeal: in editing, you
learn. Others write huge amounts on their topics of interest, finding
smaller and smaller topics for article.

Similar with OSM, I guess, although I prefer to edit in areas where I could
conceivably find myself in the future. In this case, it's not "research" so
much as "trace off nearmap", with occasional other sources.

Steve
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