[OSM-newbies] Newbies Digest, Vol 6, Issue 16

[John McKerrell]

On 20 Aug 2007, at 03:57, Robert Helvie wrote:

> Actually,
>
>>> It looks like no one has started to track/tag Korea yet.
>
> Feel free to use my track logs, just be careful because I did ride on
> some trails, farm roads, and unpaved roads.

It's worth pointing this out to Jeffrey. It's something I've thought  
every time you've mentioned getting others to tag the stuff you've  
surveyed. I think the general consensus on OSM is that though it /is/  
possible for one person to survey and another to actually input the  
data, it's usually much easier for the person who did the surveying  
to do the inputting. There's quite often things you just forget to  
write down or photograph that you remember as you're using josm. I'm  
not saying it's impossible, and I haven't seen your notes which may  
well be absolutely spot on, but I think in general this is what  
people have found. Also you sound like you're trying to put a lot of  
effort into cleaning up your track and getting your notes available  
to other people, you might find that a similar amount of effort would  
actually get the data into josm anyway.

So, this isn't a criticism, just an observation :-) It's great to see  
someone mapping an essentially blank country, good luck with it.

John