[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?

[Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:53:10 +0100
TimSC <mappinglists at sheerman-chase.org.uk> wrote:

> On 29/09/10 10:57, Peter Körner wrote:
> >
> > Imported data is dead data - there's no one that feels responsible
> > for it.
> 
> In the long run, both OSM surveyed data and imported data are "dead" 
> data. Over the course of years people come and go. We need to get
> used to the idea of maintaining a data set for which the original
> surveyor is no longer participating. The alternative is to resurvey
> the whole planet every decade from scratch.
> 
> TimSC

I completely agree here. It is not particularly useful with a mindset
of "this has already been mapped", since an incorrect mapping is quite
likely to be less useful than an unmapped area.
One should obviously not disregard the enthusiasm of someone going into
OSM-uncharted territory to contribute, but as with so many other
projects, there are the rockstar and the roadie tasks, and maintenance
is certainly a part of that.
I have been playing with a writeup for a journal for schoolteachers,
encouraging them to take the children out to do some mapping of what is
not on the maps, for instance using walking-papers.org. This
kind of contribution will be a maintenance effort which might be
popular.

Yours,
Morten
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