Harry Wood: Thanks for the tip.

seoadvertisement: Who is “we”, what is “this” you suggest needs to stop, and what trouble do you foresee? The data mapped was all surveyed from public, non-restricted areas combined with the Bing imagery and public construction update documents from the GSA. The GSA is a US federal government agency which makes those resources public domain.

My diary post is centered around the OSM Project of the Week: Project HotSpot, but more at the local level in lieu of the top 10 vacation spots. One of the points of HotSpot is: Can OSM have more detailed maps of tourism locations than MapQuest?

@!i! Local knowledge combined with pen-and-paper surveys with the help of Yahoo! images and existing OSM map data to line up the vector artwork. I normally print the Yahoo! images and the existing OSM data to serve as a starting point to record map features, using a pen and paper.

@liftarn No doubt about it; the Yahoo! images certainly helped, but the local businesses, their names, attractions, and other amenitites had to be locally surveyed. If you browse around Temecula on OSM, you'll notice that I still have some surveying to do :)