[OSM-talk-be] Again some basic question + interest poll mapping party Turnhout

[Ben Laenen]

On Friday 20 June 2008, Chris Van Bael wrote:
> 2) What is the division of time for adding new roads?
> The beginners guide on the wiki talks about gather data, upload data,
> edit maps, edit data, render maps.
> Now the last step is optional if I understood correct, OSM will take
> care of it automatically once I upload the data.

indeed, the maps on the openstreetmap site are updated automatically. 
Only if you want to make your own maps you'd need to do it yourself.

> Edit Data can be as time consuming as I want depending on how much
> detail I'd like to provide. (bus stops, bike tracks, other POI)
> But how much time would I need to add a basic road with only the
> street name?
>
> Say I walk or bycicle around in my city, continuously logging data
> for one hour. How long would I be editing the maps? 5 minutes, half
> an hour, an hour, 3 hours? Just small roads and streetname, no extra
> detail.

Depends a lot on the type of roads of course. If I'm out mapping cycle 
routes on my bicycle, for every hour I drive I have to edit about three 
hours usually. That's for basic data for a route of about 15km per 
hour, i.e. street names, a church or a castle without a name, or a 
forest or a pond for example.

Walking will obviously not give as much data in the same time period as 
cycling so for one hour walking it's usually one hour editing for me.

Greetings
Ben