[talk-au] New to open street maps, looking for advice to get started

[Andrew Davidson]

I think the important thing is that you should spend your time on 
mapping things that interest you; you are after all volunteering your 
time. Some people like adding new things, some are interested in 
railways, MTB tracks, or the electricity network, some are into micro 
mapping every tree, house, fire hydrant in their area, while others like 
to clean up the errors in the existing data.

As for a reading list may I suggest:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice

for a general introduction

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines

on how things are tagged in Australia, and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Workflow_suggestions

for one answer on your question.

On 2016-10-27 23:26, Luke Picciau wrote:
> Hi, This is my first time posting to a mailing list so sorry if I mess
> it up.
>
> I just found out about the open street map project and love the idea. So
> far I have just been tracing buildings from the bing satellite images
> and adding info to locations. Here is some of my work
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-34.94778/138.63054 Username is
> Qwertii. What I was looking to find out is what should I get started
> with and where would I best be spending my time? I don't want to spent
> ages drawing out things that could just be done with a simple script.
> What things should I work on? Are there any pages I should read as a new
> user?
>
> Any advice would be awesome.
>
>
>
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