<div>This is a great idea, in my opinion. I hope someone implements. The Windows 3.11 tutorial is a great example of how to do it.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_s-py34eNU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_s-py34eNU</a></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/9 Donald Campbell II <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donaciano2000@gmail.com">donaciano2000@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I wonder how frequently something like this happens in some unmonitored<br>
area in the US.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I'm pretty sure it happens all over the place all the time. I'm one of very few people actively mapping Guyana and just last week this new user stuck a town in the ocean. So I politely messaged him and asked if he was sure it belonged there and he was pretty positive it was correct. So I sent him a permalink of it floating out there in the sea... whooops. Yeah that was an accident. There was also a kind of random 2m track connected to a town he made and some other little odds and ends. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Enthusiasm is good though.</div><div><br></div><div>I've often wished casual visitors could put things on the map anonymously and that they'd go into a big moderated bucket to await approval or rather end up in a openstreetbugs kind of layer instead. Or rather new registered users could have "training wheels" of some sort for their first few edits. Perhaps a set of Potlatch tutorials that would have them add the yellow brick road to the land of Oz, then the Emerald city... a few shops, barbers, tailors, a field of poppies, apple orchard with paths, highways, etc...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then you get to touch the real world. ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Or just skip the whole thing if you like to keep the wiki-purists happy. I think wiki believers should watch Ratatouille... yes ANYONE can edit, but not ANYONE can be a great cook. Or something like that. :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Don.</div></div>
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