I would suggest you take a incremental approach. 1) Graph paper and a compass, get them to do a traditional survey, where they measure distances (paces) and angles (compass) and plot this on graph paper.
2) Repeat the exercise - this time with a GPS. 3) As per Craig's Suggestion - then use JOSM to go digital, import the traces, digitise from air photos, with an off-line .osm file. 4) After that they should be well qualified to get their own OSM accounts and start contributing to the shared map! good luck. On 15 January 2014 05:04, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Peter O'Doherty <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks Serge and Andy for your advice. > > > > I don't have the technical skills or knowledge of OSM to undertake a > project > > of the scope my original idea seems to entail. Therefore I think I need > to > > go back to the drawing board and simplify. > > > > > My alternative idea was the software equivalent of "tracing" where one > uses, > > say, tracing paper (or sheet of perspex) laid on top of a paper map - the > > new map is drawn on the paper using the map underneath as a guide and > when > > finished, after removal of the original map, you're left with a > simplified > > map. > > What is the age of the kids? > > If they're young enough, I think there's value in teaching them how to > make the map itself the way a renderer does- with lines, and then > drawing them in (think graph paper). > > There are a couple of tools to trace paper maps. There's the famous > one Field Papers, which works in conjuction with OSM. > > There's this new tool > http://www.gislounge.com/automating-extracting-gis-data-scanned-maps/ > > But honestly, I think you could do a lot with just collecting data > with GPSes, traces, and then displaying that as vector data. > > How old are the kids? > > - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > -- Ian MacIntosh
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