[OSM-talk] Demo editing to OSM data

[Martijn van Exel]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> Potential problem with taking their own neighborhoods is that many
>> students typically live in the same neighborhoods (on campus for
>> example) which may cause conflicts when saving edits.
>
> Quite true.  I don't know anything about the students the OP
> describes, but if they are college / university students then they'll
> have their school neighbourhoods with lots of overlap. They'll also
> have their home-neighbourhoods from across the state, country or
> world.  That strikes me as an opportunity for new mappers in many
> places with less overlap and risk of conflict.
>
> Anybody want to start OSM local groups at the Big Ten universities?
> Can you imagine the swarms of mappers as they graduate and take jobs
> around the country?
>

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