[OSM-newbies] mapping a village (newbie)

[Mark Williams]

Fagyal Csongor wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have just come across with OSM, and it's lovely. Congartulations for 
> the community! I would like to contribute by mapping a Hungarian village 
> which is a white area currently, without any useful aerial images:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.381&lon=20.8463&zoom=14&layers=000BFTF
>
> I have a G1 phone with MyTracks. I am planning to take a car and 
> basically just drive through all streets systematically - than upload 
> the tracking file and tag it.
> Do you think that would work?
> Any thougths on the method?
>   

You need to draw the ways over the GPS tracks manually, just sending a
GPS track in doesn't create the streets. It is good to upload the GPS
track anyway.
If you have a village, this is a good size for JOSM - you can import
your track & draw the ways on top very easily this way.
You can also have a practice without sending anything to OSM for
practice, then do it 'for real' & upload the data.

It's nice to see it all come together. I suggest you do main streets
first, to get the shape of the place, then add minor roads, then details
later. If you intend adding addresses (see Karlsruhe Scheme) gather the
house numbers as you go as well as street names, it saves going back later!

Mark