[OSM-talk] osm talk at local LUG

[Andrew]

On Tuesday 10 June 2008 10:09:22 Steve Hill wrote:
> The level of interest seemed quite high at the time, but sadly I
> don't think we've got any new mappers from that group.

I attended my first mapping party two weeks ago, along with 2 other 
newbies. Having cycled my allotted residential street area I went 
home and uploaded my traces, plotted and named roads live with 
potlach, I also uploaded a couple of artifacts with josm, all just 
to see how I got on. To the best of my knowledge the other two did 
not edit the map but their traces were uploaded.

As with all these things I found learning what to do a bit difficult 
and exchanged a few e-mails with more experienced mappers  but I 
think a tutorial session prior to the party would have been 
effective.

By the time I was confident to edit the remainder of my traces 
another mapper, with better detail, had uploaded the same area. I 
don't begrudge the time I spent as it was interesting to learn a bit 
more of my local area and I'm fully in support of the project but I 
won't risk duplicating effort like this again and shall try to learn 
more about refining the particular area I am interested in after the 
basic backbone has been put in by others.

Is there a crib sheet for symbols and details anywhere, along with 
the respective tabs?

Andrew