[OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > There is no point endangering the
> > genuinely collected data for the sake of some lazy copying.
>
> This is not fairly worded. In Australia (and other sparsely populated
> areas), it is not just "for the sake of some lazy copying" - this
> issue is critical to whether there is any hope of eventually getting
> reasonable coverage of street names throughout the country. It's a
> big, sparse country.
>
>
Yeah. I'm not willing to concede that staying at home and mapping a few
hundred streets using electronic source is somehow "lazier" than driving a
long way to take photo of a couple of streets. Physically visiting streets
is seriously time consuming. The ratio must be something like 10:1 or worse.

Steve
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