On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi newbies list, > > Are you new to OpenStreetMap? Here are some questions as conversation > starters. All are optional. > > 1. What first brought your attention to OSM? A magazine article? A > web site interview? SteveC's FLOSS Weekly interview? > > Stumbled across the site while trying to find an app that would compile ESRI shapefiles into Garmin IMGs > 2. What made you decide to get involved and join this list? > > Information overload & conflicting documentation on a lot of the tools > 3. What is the trickiest part about starting with OSM, for you? Can > you suggest how to make this tricky thing less-tricky? > > Learning the tools. I'd tried Potlatch, but found its undo feature frequently undid everything instead of just the last change I tried. I like JOSM, but even now after 4 months using it, I still have trouble finding things. Some tags/features have to be manually entered into either JOSM or Potlatch, while others are built-in. Maybe something could be done in the WIKI to compile all keys into a settings file that either tool could download either on startup or on demand. I still haven't figured out how to roll the Garmin IMG files the way I wanted them despite searching the WIKI for mkgmap documentation. Could someone point me to a good howto. Ideally, I'd love to see a UI (like JOSM) that can open files of any format without having to massage the data in GPSbabel/shp2osm/etc..., allow you to download/upload changes to the server, and let you save to Garmin/TomTom/Lowrance/etc... from a single location. > Or, of course, feel free to post your questions about beginning to > contribute data to OpenStreetMap. > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >
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