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

[Aun Johnsen]

Ok, much of Europe are surveyed, and have good Y! or other Hi-res coverage,
US have probably the best Hi-res coverage around, along with Japan,
Australia have its Nearmap. What about the frikin rest of the world? I am
desperatly trying to map Brazil, and not even half the states have Hi-res
quality to work from. There is not even a square inch of Hi-res in my state.
Can anyone please inform me where to pleade Y! or any other to invest in
more Hi-res in Brazil? I do not want to trace cattle-tracks in Salvador
(Bahia) when there are so many cities in Espirito Santo still not with a
single strip of road (except from the IBGE import).

Also the density of OSM mappers are much higher in US, Europe and Australia,
than here in Brazil. The entire Brazilian community is probably smaller in
total than each of Melburn, Hamburg, Paris, Manchester, and Atlanta, meaning
that the workload for each of us is 10-15 times of what you have.

Don't get me wrong, I hope you all get your areas completely mapped so you
can turn your attention a little our way, and Nearmap and Y! are helping all
of you speed up that process. If it was up to me than all of the world's
landmass should get Hi-res coverage, not only for us to trace our cities or
the country-side, but also do tracings of Pedra do São Paulo [1]. Yes, I'd
love to trace such remote places.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter_and_Paul_Rocks
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