[OSM-newbies] "Fresh" map

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Peter O'Doherty <mail at peterodoherty.net> wrote:
> Thanks Serge and Andy for your advice.
>
> I don't have the technical skills or knowledge of OSM to undertake a project
> of the scope my original idea seems to entail. Therefore I think I need to
> go back to the drawing board and simplify.
>

> My alternative idea was the software equivalent of "tracing" where one uses,
> say, tracing paper (or sheet of perspex) laid on top of a paper map - the
> new map is drawn on the paper using the map underneath as a guide and when
> finished, after removal of the original map, you're left with a simplified
> map.

What is the age of the kids?

If they're young enough, I think there's value in teaching them how to
make the map itself the way a renderer does- with lines, and then
drawing them in (think graph paper).

There are a couple of tools to trace paper maps. There's the famous
one Field Papers, which works in conjuction with OSM.

There's this new tool
http://www.gislounge.com/automating-extracting-gis-data-scanned-maps/

But honestly, I think you could do a lot with just collecting data
with GPSes, traces, and then displaying that as vector data.

How old are the kids?

- Serge