[OSM-talk] "Hack the Map" An Idea for Online Mapping Events.

[Parveen Arora]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

First of all, thanks for your valuable response.

> I'm sure there have been similar events before.
Yes, I also thinks that there are many.
> I apologize for being
> critical of your event.  It seems to me that training new mappers
> about OSM only with "armchair" mapping techniques misses an important
> opportunity.  To be sure, aerial imagery can be a helpful resource
> when mapping.  But aerial imagery is only one resource, and it is one
> that is often a years-old reference.  Even aerial imagery that is
> current offers only a limited perspective.
> Please include real field work as part of your event.  It is that real
> field work that provides the very best, most current, data to a
> mapper.

We are organising mapping parties from last few years at continuous intervals,
and we have also collected the data of large areas and data collected
is also of very rich quality.
But the problem is that we are not finding any satisfactory results.
By analysing and observing all the facts we concluded that most of the
people does not have the exact knowledge of how to edit make correctly
and effectively, some time they also uses  to give wrong tags to nodes
and way-points, which is not a good thing for OSM maps.

So In result we have collected the large amount of data in last
mapping parties which is still pending to upload or not edited
correctly.
So we decided to train the students to edit maps, teaching them field
work to collect data is easy but I think we should  have more
concentrate teach people how to edit maps effectively and correctly.
As most of the people does not prefer to get or read all the pages
available on wiki for there help.
Please correct me If I am wrong.


Thank You.
-- 
Parveen Arora
www.parveenarora.in
E-Mail: osm at parveenarora.in