+ some interesting info/update from Mapillary = https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2019/05/09/launching-map-2020.html
Participate in #map2020 and if your project gets selected, then you get ticket to Germany to attend HOT Summit & present your project. Regards, Amey. On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 20:35, rajudev <raju...@disroot.org> wrote: > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] OSM - Quick start for first time users > Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 09:54:59 +0530 > From: Milind Oka <oak...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <linux...@mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai India <linux...@mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > > Hi all, > > Finally I decided to try OSM on my own as I could not find any local guru. > > Here is a short report for the benefit of new users in order to save their > time (and not to teach them anything as such). > > ● Go to openstreetmap.org > > ● Open an account and then login. > > ● The site has an interactive walk through tutorial which is excellent so > spend 4-5 minutes if you want. > > ● The site has three in-browser editors. First one is iD which is simple > and sufficient. Select it without fail and proceed. (otherwise Arial view > will not be available). > > ● Views can be found in Layer option. There are two main views that you use > - First is Arial view from satellite and the second is OpenStreetMap - > standard view, which is used for navigation. You can switch back and forth > through these two views or layers. > > ● There are three important edits that you are supposed to do as your basic > contribution. > > ● First is Point or Point of Interest (POI). This can be restaurant, cafe, > chemist etc. There can be several such points in a building. > > ● Second is Area (building, ground, lake etc), > > ● Third is Line (Road, FOB, Pipelines etc) > > Ensure that you are logged in and iD Editor is selected. > > START CONTRIBUTING NOW : > > ● Search any familiar place where you would like to contribute. Locate any > building based on its shape and surrounding which is not yet tagged. > > ● Identify its name by nearby elements. Then click on it and in the > resulting popup give its name say "xyz Mansion". Tick-Save-Upload. Thats it > ! > > ● If a building does not exist on map, then switch to satellite image. Hit > Area tool and make a closed region around it and then tag it (as we did in > previous step). You may add other details if you want, for example, level, > height etc > > ● Do the same for other areas like gardens, grounds and lakes etc. Points > are also to be added at appropriate places so that the map will be even > more useful to all. > > Hope this quick tour is helpful. > > About 80% buildings are shown on map but not tagged. Remaing 20% are yet to > be shown (using area tool) and then to be tagged. So contributions are > really needed on large scale. Nagarjuna, in our last meeting, suggested > that OSM should be introduced to students. We surely have to do that. > > My thoughts from ilug-bom viewpoint : > > This can be taken as a regular activity in our monthly meetings. No > separate sessions are necessary. Anybody can start contributing in 10 > minutes provided someone shows the options and a sample contribution. We > can take a small live session in introduction itself . In fact we will > upload new member's house/building/bunglow and few other tags as a part of > demonstration. > > There is a desktop application JOSM which is bit more advanced. Also few > android apps are there. Two of them are worth using. OsmAnd+ and Vespucci. > OsmAnd+ is mainly for OSM users (for navigation etc). Vessupucci is > alternative to iD/JOSM. It is for contributors. Found Vesupucci quite > satisfactory. Started contributing even from mobile using Vespucci. > > Thanks and Regards > Milind > > -- > https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > _______________________________________________ > plug-mail mailing list > plug-mail@plug.org.in > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
