[OSM-talk-be] Hello

[Renaud MICHEL]

Le samedi 18 juillet 2009 à 12:31, Alain Empain a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I am a new member of the talk-be list.

Hello Alain, nice to see you join in ;-)

> I live near Liège (Nandrin, Condroz).
> My interest : mapping the Condroz scenery roads and its cycling-friendy
> paths.
>
> My first uploads concern Nandrin-Engis-Villers le
> Temple-Soheit-Fraiture-Berleur-Neupré.

Great! Liège is still so poorly mapped (even in the center many road 
names/oneways are missing), the more mappers the better it will soon be.

> This region is crossed by a regional cycling path, and I wonder how to
> proceed to correctly enter all the required the tags (and which tags).
>
> To learn and to progress into potlatch, I gave priority to the cycling
> path, but now I must adjust the tags to their correct values concerning a
> mixture of road of different kind and cycling path.
>
> I read the discussions about cycling, but it is not yet clear for me
> (perhaps too much freedom ?).
>
> Is there a frozen guideline for beginners :
>
> 1/ set current a segment
> 2/ click-left on ... (for ex.)
>  etc.

You can also have a look at JOSM which has many advanced features and useful 
plugins.
see
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/
and it works fine with openJDK :-)

cheers
-- 
Renaud Michel