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

[John Smith]

2010/1/4 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Most of which has no aerial coverage anyway, so physically going there
is the only option for 95% (give or take) of the land mass.