[OSM-talk] openmaps.eu

[John Smith]

2009/12/18 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> I think I made one or two tiny changes. Wasn't game to make any major
> changes at that stage, though I have made suggestions on talk pages. I
> really think there needs to be a shift away from talking about GPS'ing to
> talking about editing, as the first thing newbies see. They can always
> graduate onto GPSing later.

I disagree, if you want to target new editors that's fine, but it's
also important to help people that only want to contribute traces that
others can then turn into map data.

> Yes the wiki hasn't really caught up with how easy it is to contribute to
> OSM these days, thanks to the advent of Potlatch and Yahoo/Nearmap. Most of
> the info is still geared towards much greater levels of involvement and
> commitment.

While it's a noble pursuit to help a specific demographic I think it's
important not to exclude others in the process, most areas I've lived
in in the last 12 months have no NearMap coverage, there is some
coverage with the Qld property boundary data, that doesn't help in
northern NSW, where GPS traces is almost the only way to accurately
import ways and POIs etc.