[OSM-talk-be] Introduction

[Jo]

Hi Marc,

Your help will be much appreciated! Voetwegen are usually tagged as:

highway=footway
name=Voetweg 22
bicycle=yes (or no, of course)
horse=no (or yes)
width=1.60
surface=dirt (or paved, asphalt)

Which editor are you using? If you simply do edit, then it is Potlatch2. You
can easily get help in there to get you started.

There is also another editor; JOSM, which is a lot more powerful. It allows
you to show where on your GPX track you took pictures, for example. You can
download it at josm.openstreetmap.de

We will also be organizing a meeting in Liège on the 13th of May, where I
will show some advanced/efficient ways of using JOSM to trace buildings from
bing imagery and associ (among other things). There will also be an
introduction what OSM is all about. It will probably be in French.

Don't worry about making mistakes. It's very easy to fix/improve things
afterwards. We will probably arrange another informal meeting in June,
possibly in Aarschot.

Cheers,

Polyglot

2011/4/15 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> My name is Marc Gemis. I'm new to OpenStreetMap. Since I'm using
> OpenFietsMap on my Garmin device and I hope to give something back.
> I saw that in my area (Reet (Rumst)) a number of Buurtwegen (BW) en
> Voetwegen (VW) are not on the map. I could also add a number of paths in the
> Park van Boom and Rumst, as well as tsome of the knooppunten of
> Rivierenland.
>
> At the moment I'm reading through the documentation to get an idea what is
> involved. Although I'm a bit reluctant to actually start modifying the map,
> I hope to add some data soon.
>
> regards
>
> m.
>
> p.s. my mothertongue is Dutch and my mapper name is 'escada' (after one of
> our dogs).
>
>
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