[OSM-talk] Can you recommend good introduction to JOSM for 100% osm newbie?

[john whelan]

I think we underestimate new mappers.  JOSM takes a little more time to set
up true enough but once set up new mappers can be quite productive.  I
think it is best if you limit them to adding one or two features at a time
but for adding buildings nothing beats it with the buildings_tool plugin.

The number of misshapped, mistagged, untagged buildings in OSM is testament
to the difficulties they have with other editors.

Highways, I think it is iD that offers many choices of tags but do we
really need rural highways in Africa to be tagged as unlit?


Cheerio John

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 06:25 Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/10/2020 08:57, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> On 5. Oct 2020, at 00:58, Michael Booth <boothym at gmail.com> <boothym at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure I'd recommend JOSM for a 100% OSM newbie unless there was a specific reason or feature required when editing.
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> I would, because they will have to learn from scratch anyway, so why not starting with the most popular (by numbers of edits), most powerful, most versatile, closest to the community consensus and longest standing (i.e. most reliable that it will remain) editor?
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> Telling potential new contributors that they need to use JOSM to
> contribute to OSM will have two effects:
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>    1. It'll put lots of people off contributing to OSM at all.
>    2. It'll cause lots of errors in OSM where people don't understand
>    what they're doing do things by accident.
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> All tools have their strengths and weaknesses and it makes sense to use
> the right tool for the job in each case.  JOSM is great for some things - I
> regularly use 4 different OSM editors on a regular basis and by some
> measure of "most edits" JOSM may well be "the editor that I use most", but
> I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't familiar with the basics in OSM
> at all yet.  People need to find out how "what they see in the real world"
> and "what they see on a map" relate to "what data is actually in OSM" and
> JOSM really isn't good at explaining, or in some cases even representing,
> that.
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> Best Regards,
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> Andy
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