[OSM-newbies] Village_pump

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Roland OSM wrote:
>Sent: 22 July 2008 11:01 AM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Village_pump
>
>Thanks! So someone needs three to five accounts and people
>check all these channels?
>
>1) a (or several) mailing-list account(s) to ask questions
>2) a wiki-account to ask in the wiki (it seems that anonymous edits are not
>allowed)
>3) another account for editing the map
>4) an account for the forum (no anonymous posting there)
>5) an irc account
>
>For the last days I have been trying to find out how the OSM project
>works. I am an advanced user in several wikis, however,
>apart from the fact that editing map data is by nature more
>complex than editing text ... is this extra level of confusion
>necessary or did it just happen?

It's the way of OSM, organised chaos :-)

>
>I guess several people have asked this question before ... ;-)

Well, I'm not sure you have actually asked your question. If you are more
specific we can help you get the specific answer.

Cheers

Andy