[OSM-talk] Questions from a newbie on editing

[Lars Aronsson]

Laurence Penney wrote:

> Is the advice on the OSM site out-of-date that newbies should 
> use the online applet?

I don't know why, but it seems your posting (from May 2 ?) was 
delayed by 10 days.

I guess things are about as bad as you fear.  Beware that 
roads/ways and annotations are new features, and the applet has 
good support only for simple line segments.  For example, I 
haven't figured out how to split a way into two, or how to add 
nodes and line segments to the middle of a long way. As a newbie, 
it would be sufficient to upload tracks and draw line segments.  
Most of the map was done like that in the last year, before ways 
were introduced.  Between St. Petersburg and Murmansk is a long 
chain of thousands of line segments, and I refuse to use the 
applet to click that into a way.

Recently, much energy has been absorbed by the OSM Workshop on the 
Isle of Wight, by the installation of new servers, and by various 
ideas on setting up a foundation or association.  And coming up 
this weekend is Mapchester.  Things might calm down next week, or 
perhaps they'll never do, now that founder Steve Coast has all the 
media attention.

Use your wiki user page to write a diary of your frustrations.  
The old users have forgotten what is frustrating to a newcomer, so 
every clue us needed.  I'm user:LA2


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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