[OSM-talk] Is there some existing detailed tutorial directed at complete newbies? Describing how to add various features?

[Yves]

I tried to do that from a corner case: begginer guide for cross-country skier:
http://www.opensnowmap.org/iframes/how-to-fra.html
It reminds me I still have to translate it in English.
This is not exactly what you are looking for, but it can give some ideas.
Yves 

Le 22 février 2020 09:23:35 GMT+01:00, Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk at openstreetmap.org> a écrit :
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>22 Feb 2020, 08:09 by rory at technomancy.org:
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>> Isn't this the job of the editing software (incl it's presets)? If
>there's a search box and the user can type in (eg) "path" and draw the
>path, then that's how you teach newbies? 
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>Yes, but complete newbie needs to
>be taught this steps.
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>It is not obvious.
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>And for mobile editing one needs 
>instructions for Vespucci that is a bit
>less obvious.
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>> Has this user tried to use iD (the best new user friendly editor
>today) to do this? Does that do the job? If not, I'm sure everyone,
>incl id devs, would like to know. 🙂 
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>No, he was unaware that it can be done this way and that it is
>relatively simple.
>(I hope that it is relatively simple)
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>> On 22 February 2020 05:37:13 CET, Mateusz Konieczny via talk
><talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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>>> Is there some automatically generated website 
>>> describing in excruciating detail how to map various features?
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>>> Something directed to a potential mappers, 
>>> explicitly describing every single smallest step,
>>> for every single mappable feature.
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>>> I ask as I had again a friend asking me 
>>> "how to add aconstruction area/path/... to OSM".
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>>> And it seems to me that automatically generated 
>>> set of such tutorials is both feasible and potentially useful.
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>> -- 
>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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