Atlanta to start giant 'mapathon'

[T_i_B]

Source: BBC

Atlanta, the capital of the US state of Georgia will soon be the world's most digitally mapped city, according to organisers of a massive "mapathon".

OpenStreetMap, or OSM, is behind the effort to produce a map more accurate than anything else on the market.

In addition, all the data will be given away free for others to use.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8305924.stm

[lillypaddle]

1. Good. Cause the layout of Atlanta is totally fucked

Streets change names suddenly for no apparent reason; one second you are in the 4200 block, the next you are in the 1100 block; many streets have the same names (there's like a gazillion "Peachtree"). Anyway, I still get lost around here after 10 years. Thank god for mapquest.

[greymattermom]

2. name change

One of the reasons streets change names in Atlanta is that during the days of segregation, whites didn't want to live on the same street as blacks. Volia, just change the street name at the border.

[izquierdista]

3. Bring in the Mormons

Then you could have addresses like 666N.$1.95E.