Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 22/09/2010 06:52, Sam Wilson wrote: I'm currently thinking of changing this mud-map to use the relevant OSM tile as a starting point, and getting the users to sketch in their notes and modifications over the top, and then uploading these modified tiles to our server from where I can use

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread Sam Wilson
On 2010-09-22 3:47 PM, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Take a look at Walking Papers: http://walking-papers.org/ This does a similar thing, but with printouts that can be given to non-technical mappers to make notes on. You then scan the annotated map back into Walking Papers, which makes it

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread John Smith
On 22 September 2010 18:10, Sam Wilson s...@archives.org.au wrote: (This project, by the way, if anyone's interested, is to assist power pole assessors in Western Australia; people who travel thousands of kms a month Are you planning to upload pole locations to OSM? The poles are of interest to

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread Sam Wilson
On 2010-09-22 4:17 PM, John Smith wrote: On 22 September 2010 18:10, Sam Wilsons...@archives.org.au wrote: (This project, by the way, if anyone's interested, is to assist power pole assessors in Western Australia; people who travel thousands of kms a month Are you planning to upload pole

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread Shaun McDonald
On Wed, September 22, 2010 9:10 am, Sam Wilson wrote: On 2010-09-22 3:47 PM, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Take a look at Walking Papers: http://walking-papers.org/ This does a similar thing, but with printouts that can be given to non-technical mappers to make notes on. You then scan the

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread Sam Wilson
On 22/09/10 5:55 PM, Shaun McDonald wrote: Have you taken a look at Potlatch2? It allows you to customise the interface easily, so that only the appropriate things that are needed for that group of editors is shown, thus making it easier for them.

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/22 Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de: You can completely configure the presets available in josm but you can't remove the possibility of changing existing data or adding arbitrary tags via the tag editor. You could simply not show the tag editor (I would actually do this for a

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 22/09/2010 11:10, Sam Wilson wrote: Unfortunately, this all has to work offline, so Potlatch can't help me. But really, that idea of limiting an editor to a specific set of tags (etc.) seems great; anyone know if one of the offline editors would lend itself to that sort of thing? As

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?

2010-09-22 Thread Chris Browet
the map rendering from within the application (no file editing). However, it does need installing, as opposed to JOSM's drop-in operation. Note however that since 0.16, there is a portable version of Merkaartor for Windows, i.e. a plain zip file you extract anywhere and just double-click the