http://forum.manifold.net/forum/t91596.9
OK, it's a very small sample set but I think he does have some valid concerns.
OpenStreetMap
http://forum.manifold.net/forum/t91596.9
OK, it's a very small sample set but I think he does have some valid concerns.
Discussion
په 3 December 2009 په 09:19 باندې د drlizau تبصره
In fact a sample of one. (S)he reminds me of certain people within my own profession who believe they are the fount of all wisdom, because they are "specialists" while generalists like myself consider them to know "more and more, about less and less". (S)he needs some consumer input, to provide a broader view of life.
په 3 December 2009 په 09:36 باندې د Gregory Williams تبصره
I think that they also need a better understanding of Chaos and order can actually arise from a chaotic system.
په 3 December 2009 په 09:43 باندې د acrosscanadatrails تبصره
Perhaps showing walkingpapers.org and asking the 'professional' to help make it look better :)
... here's what i did. I'm sure a professional can do something better.
Pointing out the negatives is certainly much easier than taking time to learn what all is possible.
Apparently, even as the OSM tools get better, there is still that learning curve that people need to go through to fully understand the foreign concept of 'sharing data'
په 3 December 2009 په 09:47 باندې د Richard تبصره
Avid Manifold users are well known for being, shall we say, a little unbalanced. Look through the archives at spatiallyadjusted.com for more.
په 3 December 2009 په 14:36 باندې د davetoo تبصره
I'm still reading the paper proposed as a rebuttal, at this link: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~good/papers/457.pdf Only partway through, but a good read.
په 3 December 2009 په 22:25 باندې د robert تبصره
Thanks for the link. It gave me a good giggle.
Perhaps he should look at that example of the wonders of Professional Mapping that is TIGER before he makes blanket statements about "QA" of "Pro" vs. "Amateur" mapping.
په 4 December 2009 په 03:24 باندې د Unusual User Name تبصره
OSM will never be all things to all people.
A properly prepared cartographic map is a thing of beauty, brimming with useful detail and information(and usually quite a few years out of date). OSM is quite a way off matching the output, but can win on currency.
However, most people never go within coo-ee of cartographic output, they just use street directories, and ones that are many years old at that.
Hell, Google Maps is really popular, and it's often bloody awful.
OSM is pretty respectable, and improving all the time.
The real strength of OSM is not the Mapnik rendered map, with a slow and not clever search function (but improving - Nominatim is a step up), but having data that you can get your hands on and obtain it easily, and it's fulfilling that function better all the time.
I'm impressed at the improvement in my local area over just one year. Waiting a couple more years is quicker than trying to get data out of government, which will probably have problems with it anyway.