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

[Wayne Emerson, Jr.]

The OSM World Discord server usually has people on that can answer basic 
questions https://discord.gg/q6HnfNZ
Doing the iD tutorial teaches the basics and is easy to learn. One can 
learn the basic tags by using the presets found using the iD search box. 
Tagging a basic individual object can be learned from the wiki.

However some tagging situations are more complex, like how to tag a 
school (What tags go on schoolyard vs. the building) or bus routes, or 
admin boundaries, etc. There are some nice guides buried in the wiki but 
it can be difficult for a beginner to wade through all the component 
tags before finding a guide to the whole. This can be discouraging to a 
new mapper. Even more so when you do find a guide, for example, on 
tagging bus routes but then not being sure if its the new scheme or the 
old scheme and so many contradictions can make people give up.

Wiki cleanup & a front page link to an index of authoritative & current 
tagging guides for complex entities would be nice. Maybe call it 
"Special Mapping Guides"

On 2/22/2020 5:25 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
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> 22 Feb 2020, 10:37 by simon at poole.ch:
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>     From a pedagogic point of view I would consider that suboptimal,
>     no to mention that it would be endless.
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> I expect that endless part may be
> solved by generating it automatically
> from iD and Vespucci presets.
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>     For anybody that is going to contribute more than once (and iDs
>     tutorial does a good job of guiding through that), we want them to
>     learn the basic concepts of OSM and enable them to extend that to
>     new situations.
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> It is intended to be tutorial for the first edit.
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> I remember that I was quite confused
> during making first edits.
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>     That is different from a guided contribution model, say for
>     example with https://osmybiz.osm.ch/
>     <https://osmybiz.osm.ch/#/19/47.15976/8.36968> which is preferable
>     for people that don't want to contribute to OSM in general but
>     just want to add and maintain a specific object.
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