[OSM-talk] Addressing SIG

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 8. Nov 2019, at 13:59, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
> 
> Just imagine that we increase the number of new OSM contributors by an
> order of magnitude, to ~2'000'000 per year, and just as magically we get
> them to make the single edit they typically make to be adding an
> address


imagine every facebook user would put their home address, or every business owner their business address. To make this happen, the procedure must be dead simple, and not require you understand an editor, or use a complex website with bells and whistles, but so overwhelming to my grand aunt that she will close the page as soon as she finds the button to do so.

We could announce a campaign, “citizen mapping project collects all the addresses in the world and provides them freely to everybody” or similar.

Cheers Martin