[OSM-talk] Demo editing to OSM data

[Matthias Meißer]

Am 01.11.2011 20:49, schrieb Kate Chapman:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Why wouldn't you just teach them how to edit to add real information?
> I can't speak for the whole community, but I think that is the best
> way to teach them.  There are workshops held all over the world where
> people immediately make edits to OpenStreetMap.
+1
Was exactly my thoughts. I had contact to a lot of teachers (so more 
difficult little new contributors) and there wasn't any kind of 
vandalism or so on. Of course there were mistakes, but come on all of us 
did mistakes, at the very first edits :)

bye
Matthias (user:!i!)

>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Peter Mooney<petermooney78 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am doing some teaching in a few weeks time on Neogeography. I intend
>> to show the students the workings of OpenStreetMap and in particular
>> how to contribute data and edit/update existing features.
>>
>> I am aware that http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/ exists for testing.
>>
>> My question is:
>>
>> What is the most community-acceptable way to allow people to "test
>> out" editing in OSM (via Potlatch) which harming the data in the live
>> database? Under no circumstances will editing of the live database
>> take place in the workshops.
>>
>> Is there an alternative to setting up my own local OSM server?
>>
>> Best wishes and thanks in advance,
>>
>> Peter
>>
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