[OSM-newbies] Newbie

[anil kumar]

Hello ,
           This feels like an adventure :) . I will try my best to add value
to the OSM.

thank you,
Anil

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Ramey <zephyr at cryptotrope.com> wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:00 , anil kumar wrote:
>
> > I am located in Bangalore, karnataka,India . Live close by to MSRIT where
> pycon2010 india is being organised.
> >
>
> It doesn't appear [1] that there's a whole lot of armchair cartography left
> in that area, other than landuse (residential, commercial, retail, etc.).
>  So, that leaves surveying.  Take a look at Walking Papers [2], you could
> print out a map and take it out with you, and make notes on what you see so
> that you can add them to the map.  You don't have to scan the map you print
> with Walking Papers back in, you can just use it as scratch paper to locate
> where you need to add things on the map.  To edit the map, you need to
> create an account (it's free!) and the easiest editor is Potlatch [3], it's
> the page you go to when you hit the edit tab on openstreetmap.
>
> When comparing with google maps [4], I see that in general OSM has a little
> more detail, but google has neighborhood names that OSM doesn't.
> If you could get those, without copying from other maps (or google), either
> from your own knowledge, or asking residents, that would be helpful too.
>
> The nice thing about OSM is that you can scratch your own itch, that is,
> you can map what's important to you.  If you drive, you could make sure the
> street network is complete, has traffic lights, and speed limits.  If you
> bike, you could make sure that bike routes and paths are on the map.  As you
> go out to eat, you could make sure the restaurant you went to is on the map.
>
> Good luck, and enjoy the exploration.
>
> Ramey
>
> [1]
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=13.03646&lon=77.56117&zoom=16&layers=B000TTF
> [2] http://walking-papers.org/
> [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch
> [4]
> http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=77.56117&lat=13.03646&zoom=15
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