It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map

Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map by pekk on Monday February 03, 2014 @09:51AM (#7170856)

Is the purpose to make good data, or to make a community of people manually tracing things that were already traced in liberally licensed data? And how exactly does this help with maintenance?

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Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map by milliams on Monday February 03, 2014 @09:55AM (#7170874)

The former.

It has been found that encouraging a community around the data collection creates much better data in the long run. An involved community can go beyond what is provided by other datasets and do more than can be done with 'tracing'.

There's more to OSM that road centre-lines and building outlines.

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Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map by Doctor_Fegg on Monday February 03, 2014 @10:58AM (#7171284)

The purpose is to make good data.

Nine years' experience is that a community of people is the best way to make good data and keep it up-to-date.

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Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map by michaelt on Monday February 03, 2014 @10:03AM (#7170926)

Can you link to any examples of them tracing over bulk, good quality, correctly licensed data? For example wiki pages or mailing list discussions saying they require this?

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Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map by 7952 on Monday February 03, 2014 @10:18AM (#7171010)

I think the effort is to make a community. You can always make your own maps separately that mix in other data. Trying to make a single map that will be all things for all people is a waste of time. Streetmaps only every show a tiny amount of data that could be shown.

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