[OSM-newbies] Newbie

[Arunmozhi]

There is mapping party being organised during the inpycon event. You
can meet other mappers out there. If you wish to attend kindly include
your name in the wiki @
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Inpycon_2010_Bangalore

all the best for your mapping efforts.

By
arunmozhi

On 7/14/10, anil kumar <anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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