[OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

[D Tucny]

2009/3/19 Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>

> Douglas Furlong <douglas.furlong <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >I would not preclude payed for work to be honest.
> >
> >If a company was using OSM for the basis of their product, and their was a
> >certain area of the world that for some reason just wasn't being mapped,
> >what's to stop sponsorship for those area's?
>
> It would have to be an area that isn't covered by any existing map, or any
> widely-available satellite imagery, otherwise the temptation to copy would
> be
> too great.  Paying people nothing for mapping work is one of the best ways
> to
> keep them honest.
>

I was thinking about something similar the other day, what I was thinking
was that in an area that is reasonably complete, offering a reward for
capturing the detail of missing roads/features and/or missing/incorrect
names such that the reward would only be payable with GPS traces and
photos... The trace bit wouldn't be foolproof though as people could if they
really wanted to, fake a GPX file but hopefully manual validation should
catch all but the best attempts at that and even extending the photo
requirements to capturing at least one photo every 100m would help...

The thought of all those photos led me to thinking what cool things could be
done with lots of street photos so I didn't think about the paying bit
further... I reckon it could work though, with low enough payments that
people don't spend too much time trying to cheat the system, but, enough of
a reward that people can cover the cost of batteries for the GPSr, are
encouraged to take the effort to take some photos and generally get
involved... even if it was only for a short, fixed period of time in a
certain area...

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