[OSM-talk] Contribution graph

[John Smith]

2009/12/18 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> 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,

There would come a point where you will run out of things to
learn/care about, or are you planning to become so knowledgable on
subjects that you would specilise in things to write out information
to the nth degree?

> 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.

That was my point, the amount of unwritten information in wikipedia is
starting to become a trickle instead of the flood it once was when
there was a blank canvas.

> 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.

You could always do what others have done and start tagging trees and
tagging them with botanical names, that would keep you busy for some
time to come :)

And that's assuming NearMap doesn't improve/expand coverage and/or
someone else doesn't start doing a similar thing in more rural areas,
the amount of data that can be mapped is huge.