On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. What first brought your attention to OSM? How about this one... NetStumbler. I was playing with NetStumbler, wandering the neighborhood to see just how many WAPs I could find. It was kind of amazing, the number of access points went up probably by a factor of 5 over the course of a year, but the total number of unsecured access points went down. Someone mentioned that the GPX track that I made while stumbling could be uploaded to OSM. From there my free time dwindled. > 2. What made you decide to get involved and join this list? I love maps. OSM gave me the chance to not only play with maps, but to lend a hand in creating them. > 3. What is the trickiest part about starting with OSM, for you? Figuring out how to go from a blank screen to a mapped area. Knowing what tags to use for which features. > Can you suggest how to make this tricky thing less-tricky? My tool of choice is Potlatch, and I am hard pressed to come up with a better way of allowing users to enter information into the database. However, every time a new release of Potlatch becomes available, I am shown that I know very little about creating tools for users. Each time an update comes out Potlatch just gets better and better. If you could somehow create a tool that would automatically map the world around me as I drive about with no input required from me, I'd be suitably impressed. If it could automatically map the areas that I have never been to, I would be amazed! James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
