[OSM-talk] Demo editing to OSM data

Martijn van Exel m at rtijn.org
Tue Nov 1 21:20:20 GMT 2011


I'm also a proponent of live editing for teaching. If you're concerned
about ruining contributors' work, try and find an area / some areas
with relatively little community activity, but still ample possibility
for improvements, for students to start with.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Peter Mooney <petermooney78 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kate,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> My idea is that the students would take the skills from the workshops
> and then start contributing to OSM.
>
> I suppose I have two reasons (just personal ones) for not allowing
> editing the real map in the workshop.
>
> 1. Don't want to cause errors/deletions etc on the hard
> work/contributions of other OSM community members - am concerned about
> what state the map would be left in if there were lots of mistakes
> generated.
> 2. Would feel more comfortable with a sandbox - with the idea of
> graduating on to helping these people contribute to OSM for real.
>
> Do you feel it would be OK to edit the live map?
>
> Can you point me to any materials available? I would greatly appreciate that.
>
> Thanks again in advance,
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> If you need help with materials, there are many out there to get people started.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> -Kate
>>
>> 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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