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

[Jeffrey Martin]

On 8/20/07, John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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They are far from spot on. While retyping them I certainly found gaps.

I just need to be better about stopping and writing instead of lying
to myself about my ability to remember. I have a list of things
I have to recheck.

Because I can retype the notes faster than I can draw everything in
JOSM my memory is fresher at the time I retype the notes.
I think it will be a good idea to retype them even if I don't do the
JOSM editing, so I don't think I'm making extra work for myself.

If someone uses my notes I would like to check what they did,
and I was going to ask people to check what I've done.

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