[OSM-talk] "reconverting" google mapmakers

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap#History
> I'm looking forward to seeing New Zealand fully
> complete.  (It looks like it will be done faster than
> Canada though :(  ... with the LINZ data, and other other
> stuff.

I'd sort of expect NZ to be done before AU and CA using GPS only methods simply due to population to land area, AU and CA are both huge land masses with sparsely populated areas.

> From 1 person mapping in an area.. it grows exponentially
> as more people see the value and potential in the map...
> they add it. :)

Yes... Everything works in theory :)