[Tagging] Basic philosophy of OSM tagging

[Marc Gemis]

Good idea,

Building further on this idea: Right now the main problem we have with iD
in Belgium is that we have better, more recent aerial imagery that cannot
be used in iD. They are working on that but until a new version is released
new mappers might realign house with old images from Bing. It would be nice
that each country could create messages that are displayed when you start
editing in their area. So even experienced mapper could be informed about
news from the local community.


Coming back to the unpaved residential roads vs. tracks: Wouldn't that be
solved by having a map that displays the difference between a paved
residential road, unpaved and track? I know this has been discussed before.



On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's way too easy to start mapping. Maybe you should first follow a
> > course on how to map before making your first edit. During this course
> you
> > can learn about the good mapping habits in your country. But this is
> > probably also not a popular measure.
>
> Some time ago I thought "let's be realistic" and that iD, our go-to
> editor for newbie mappers, could show some task-oriented
> mini-tutorials. Like "I want to map a / change..." so it would show
> relevant remarks (that is, like "When drawing buildings, do not place
> the outline on the roof, move it to the base. Remember to rectify
> corners if the building if applicable" and so on). A large quantity of
> mappers are, as the HDYC site ranks them, "hit-and-run mappers" that
> only map 5 or 20 edits and get bored - or just OSM is superbly mapped
> in their area (:
>
> If you can't beat them (iD), join them...
>
> Michał
>
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