Peter O'Doherty wrote:
Hi list,
Is it possible to create a fresh (offline) map of a geographical
location, a village or a neighbourhood for example, for use in an
educational project where children create the map from scratch (using
gps)? As opposed to editing or adding to an already existing map?
Many thanks,
Peter
Something that I've suggested in the past to new mappers to enable them
to "get the hang of things" prior to editing the live data is the test
server:
http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/
Unless you live somewhere where there's been data testing, there's to be
likely no data where you're interested in mapping, so it might be a
possibility. As a test server there are no service guarantees (and no
guarantees that all the data won't be wiped at some point in the
future), so you'd need to be aware of that, and you'd need to render a
map from the data yourself since there isn't (as far as I'm aware) a
rendering of the data that's on the api06 dev server anywhere.
Also, it might be worth checking with the server admins in the #osm-dev
IRC channel to make sure that they were OK with this use of it, but if
it draws new mappers into the project, I can see benefits of using it
for this.
Cheers,
Andy
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