[OSM-talk] Contribution graph

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:02 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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?
>

I've written articles about:
- Staxigoe, a small town on the Scottish coast
- Phare de la Veille, a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany
- Oort constants, used in astronomy
- PayPerPost, an ethically-challenged astroturfing site.
- Herens, a Swiss cattle variety.
- Theodore Deck, a 19th century French potter.
- Cullin-la-Ringo Massacre, a massacre of whites by aboriginals many years
ago.

I'm not running out any time soon :)


>
> 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.
>

Not really - Africa is still a blank canvas, for instance. But this is the
OSM list, not the Wikipedia list (feel free to join...), so I'll leave it
there.


> 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 :)
>

Got bigger problems to deal with first.


>
> 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.
>

That would be awesome.

Steve
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