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Re: An essay about maps
From: Tom Sult
Date: 2010 Nov 14, 17:39 -0600
From: Tom Sult
Date: 2010 Nov 14, 17:39 -0600
I do have some trepidation with crowd-sourcing. But it is a statistical game. If you have enough contributors and good referees. You should get good info. The opposite is also true. Thomas A. Sult, MD Sent from iPhone On Nov 14, 2010, at 13:21, Wolfgang Hasperwrote: > Tom wrote. > >> Just before I got this message I was going to >> write... "We need a Wikki maps initiative." Great >> minds think alike. Crowd sourcing has powerful >> implications. > > > It exists > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/ > > and it also has a branch for nautical charts. > http://www.openseamap.org/ > > whether this is reasonable is another discussion... > > regards > Wolfgang > > >