[Learnosm-coord] Fwd: Updates to LearnOSM

[Nick Allen]

Hi,

Sorry, confused here (It happens easily).

I have 3 email addresses for learnosm - I'm sending this message to each 
of them, but I don't understand which address should be used for which 
purpose?

learnsom-coord at openstreetmap.org is listed at 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

To further confuse the issue, I'm forwarding the message from Jeff , 
which my phone received yesterday (30/10/2014), but my laptop has it 
dated 24/01/2014.

Regards

Nick
(Tallguy)


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Subject: 	[Learnosm-coord] Updates to LearnOSM
Date: 	Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:58:17 -0400
From: 	Jeff Haack <jeff.haack at gmail.com>
To: 	learnosm-coord at openstreetmap.org



Hi All,

I just wanted to post a few updates that are being worked on for 
LearnOSM, so everyone is up-to-date.  Apologies for not writing this 
sooner, I'd forgotten that we had this list.

*Recent Updates*
1)  First, a few months ago I worked on updating the beginner guide and 
adding some new chapters to additional sections.  The intermediate and 
advanced chapters are essentially obsolete now in the English version. 
  The beginner guide was updated for some changes in various processes 
and with (hopefully) some more clear organization.  Three new sections 
were added - editing, osm data, and map design.  In the English version, 
links to these sections can be found beneath the beginner guide menu on 
the post pages:

Inline image 1

2)  Organization.  There was lots of talk on the GitHub issues tracker 
about how best to organize the files.  We more or less agreed on the 
following.  First, instead of intermediate and advanced sections, new 
sections will be organized topically, hence a section on editing, osm 
data, and map design.  There are also plans for sections such as 
surveying and coordination.  This new editing section contains more 
tutorials on JOSM and a chapter on the iD editor.  Any tutorials 
belonging to the editing process, be it JOSM, iD, or Potlatch2, belong 
here.  Another organizational change is with the images.  For 
translation reasons, it has become clear that there must be a separate 
image directory for each language.  Hence we are migrating to a 
structure where the images/ directory has subdirectories for en/, fr/, 
jp/ and so on.  This will involve a duplication of many images, but it 
is important to make sense of the translations.  It can be difficult to 
make updates to the the English version when all the languages are 
referring to its images.

*Current Work*
There are two main tasks that I am trying to organize at present:

1)  Translation updates.  Basically, all of the translations need to be 
updated to reflect updates in the English version.  Also there is a 
series of new chapters to be translated.  Right now we have translation 
teams organized for Japanese, Italian, German, Spanish, and (new) 
Croatian.  I hope we'll be able to find translators to update Indonesian 
and Portuguese soon.  French will need to be reworked as well, as it has 
been translated to match the old version of the documents.  If anyone is 
intending to do translations, please coordinate with me beforehand.

2)  Design changes.  Chiefly, the home page needs to be changed.  Right 
now both the "More Guides" and "Organizing a Workshop?" buttons link to 
a wiki listing old chapters.  These links need to be changed somehow 
and/or redesigned.  I'm not much of a design person so I don't know how 
best to do this.  If anyone has ideas for how to rework the homepage, 
please share them.

Inline image 2

Cheers,
Jeff


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