[Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

[Tod Fitch]

I find using an app like OsmPad useful when collecting address data. About as fast, maybe faster than, writing numbers on paper when collecting data. And much faster when editing in JOSM.

Tod

On Mar 9, 2015, at 11:06 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote:

> I've given up the dedicated GPS and/or pen and paper for data collection and I do everything using the camera and notes application on my smartphone.
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> All the pictures I take are geotagged.  I transfer the photos to a computer via the USB port and then load them into JOSM with a marker showing where they were taken.
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> There are also smartphone applications to create GPX files, but this seems superfluous for most things I map since recent high-resolution aerial photos are available from Bing.
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> Peter
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