Calaniman
July 16th, 2007, 10:15
Hello everyone,
I've been thinking, it seems so "uneffective" that we're all making our own maps. I mean, if 5000 people who live in the same region are using MapThis!, wouldn't it be more effective if just one of them made a map and the others downloaded it, instead of all 5000 making their own map?
I've seen some people already working on this (for example the map of Singapore here on the foum).
So here's my idea; What if we made like a database with maps for MapThis! of every single country/region in the world? Everyone who wants to could help out, make a map of their country and then reformat the pictures in Photoshop or something to minimize the size of th map. This would definetly make MapThis! more user-friendly.
I could host a site with all the maps, no problem. Then when you need a map you just go to the webite and download it, free of charge of course!
Would this be a good idea? And more importantly, would I/we be breaking any copyright laws? Is it possible to do without breaking copyright laws in some way?
I'm currently making a map of the UK (even though I live in Sweden :P) to see what size I can bring it down to, as an experiment.
Let me kno what you think! :thumbup:
I've been thinking, it seems so "uneffective" that we're all making our own maps. I mean, if 5000 people who live in the same region are using MapThis!, wouldn't it be more effective if just one of them made a map and the others downloaded it, instead of all 5000 making their own map?
I've seen some people already working on this (for example the map of Singapore here on the foum).
So here's my idea; What if we made like a database with maps for MapThis! of every single country/region in the world? Everyone who wants to could help out, make a map of their country and then reformat the pictures in Photoshop or something to minimize the size of th map. This would definetly make MapThis! more user-friendly.
I could host a site with all the maps, no problem. Then when you need a map you just go to the webite and download it, free of charge of course!
Would this be a good idea? And more importantly, would I/we be breaking any copyright laws? Is it possible to do without breaking copyright laws in some way?
I'm currently making a map of the UK (even though I live in Sweden :P) to see what size I can bring it down to, as an experiment.
Let me kno what you think! :thumbup: