[talk-ph] re osm community

[maning sambale]

Dear docsam,

First off I want to mention that you are doing great work mapping
Mindanao.  I'll answer a few of your concerns.

If you don't hear from anyone that means either your are doing it
correctly or no one is around to check your edits.  I suspect it is
the former. :)
I did corrected a few of your edits a few days ago.  This is related
to using the ref tag.  Apologies for not informing you of my
corrections.
Here is my changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8925161
I usually add a descriptive changeset comment so that other will
understand what was edited.
> 1.  i've been submitting data to osm but up to now i still dont have the
> confidence if im doing it right. no one is telling me if what im doing is
> right or not.  maybe a local forum osm-ph shouls be created or maybe there
> is but im not aware of it.  or atleast a personal mail to really direct to
> the person concerned the things that needs to be corrected.


Yes this is true.  Perhaps others can share their own experience on
the point > polygon conversion.
> 2.  we have a vague standards as to the placement of the waypoints and what
> i noticed, not all waypoints uploaded form part of the map.  most waypoints
> are later transformed into polygon. even the classifications of roads are a
> guessing game to me.


JOSM is the offline tool while the edit tab or potlatch is the browser
based editing tool.  I personally use JOSM because it has more editing
capabilities and I can edit data offline.  Both editor has its own
benefits and issues.
> 3.  i believe that there are a lots of people who would like to contibute to
> osm since its an international site but theres no clear tutorial site.  to
> name a few, like whats the difference of using josm and the osm edit tab
> portion?  how to make polygons, what  qualifies a waypoint to be a polygon?

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cheers,
maning
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