[OSM-talk] Things People Say

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 12/31/2011 1:48 AM, Michal Migurski wrote:
> In the bottom-right corner is the wiki Image Of The Week, which is so often the home of solid gold output from the OSM community, whether it's new renders or photos of mappers.
I beg to differ. Pulling a few examples:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:MQ_uk-eur_colours.png
Hardly that interesting, and if you pan over to North America there are 
still issues with the polygons not matching land borders exactly. 
(Whether they should even be doing this is another issue - surely it's 
useful to know which roads in Mexico are toll?)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Power_line-in-usa.png
Yay, mostly unedited TIGER with numerous gaps.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:I-55_and_I-90.png
Just kidding, but it's interesting to see how crappy the map was back in 
2006 :)

Oh, and the bikeshed needs to be lime green.