[OSM-talk] Potlatch still used in many beginner documents - can you help fix it?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 1/31/21 00:42, Andy Townsend wrote:
> The first page says things like "the workhorse is the Tasking Manager
> whose workflow you should get familiar with".

To be fair that's under the heading "You already know how to use an
editor and want to contribute to Humanitarian Mapping?" (where it is
still a bit odd since you can certainly do humanitarian mapping without
working on tasks that someone else gives you - so this presents only one
of many potential humanitarian mapping forms).

But even in the generic intro, this document is written from a
particular perspective. The message conveyed in the introduction is that
we make maps so that NGOs and governments can make better decisions and
thereby make our lives better. That is certainly one of many aspects,
but it kind of makes this document unsuitable for the Italian pensioner
who wants to fix some footpaths, the Philippine businessman who wants to
see his shop on the map, or the American cycling activist who wants to
improve bicycle routing.

If learnosm.org were to become the go-to resource to replace the
"beginner's guide" on the wiki, it would have to be carefully amended to
portray humanitarian mapping as one of many, rather than the foremost,
motivation for contributing to OSM.

It might still be a better starting point than trying to bring the Wiki
stuff up to speed - hard for me to tell especially because every one of
the 45 language versions of the wiki document seems to have different
content...

Bye
Frederik

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