[OSM-talk] Questions from a newbie on editing

[David Sheldon]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:43:42PM +0100, Laurence Penney wrote:
> * Is there a bookmarking facility for the online applet? Getting back to
> the same area is a pain.

Yes, you can use your browser's bookmark. You need to bookmark the link
that the "edit" tab points to. This gets updated to link to the current
page.

> * I didn't see any recommendations on how to set up a GPS for tracklogs.
> My Garmin has options for record method (Distance/Time/Auto) and
> interval (More often/Normal/Less often/Least often). I kept mine on
> "Auto/Normal".

I use mine set to Time=>3seconds for cycling, and Auto->Highest for
driving. Maybe we should have a page for each type of GPS with people's
suggested configurations.
 
> * It would be wonderful to know who has created each existing way,
> mainly to collaborate on doing various bits of a city as part of one's
> fitness workout!

I think that a lot of people object to the privacy implications, but
I heard rumours that the rss feed might help here. For Oxford we use a
page on the wiki to co-ordinate.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Oxford

> I'll end more positively... I can highly recommend cycling as a superb
> way to capture points.

I cycled about 50km over 3 hours yesterday to do one of the towns near
here. I also took photos of a lot of the road signs and took advantage of
the new feature of JOSM to import the images. Apart from the import
being a bit slow it was really handy, particularly the time sync
feature.

David
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