[OHM] wiki revamp
Richard Welty
rwelty at averillpark.net
Thu May 28 15:22:19 UTC 2020
a lot of reasons why the wiki needs a revamp right now.
1) entry page is a really dense thing for new users, not really
well organized for clean introduction
2) a lot of stuff is pretty stale and should be either updated or
done away with to make us not look like a dead project
3) a lot of stuff got misplaced under OHM/ instead of
Open_Historical_Map/ which has caused some comment
i've started into a revamp/reorg. i'm doing this stepwise,
starting by extracting basic info and organizing a cleaner
path for newcomers to the project. the new intro article is
here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map/OHM_Basics
Comments/suggestions are welcome. I'm a finicky, obsessive rewriter
so just because i wrote something doesn't mean it's done. i'm also
a big fan of the refactoring approach to software design, so i'm not
afraid of iterative improvement in public view.
plan of action:
1) continue fleshing out the basics article
2) when it's good enough, pull the intro material from the top
level page and re org the very beginning to put a link to the
basics article up front
3) continue the reorg
richard
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