Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Use_OpenStreetMap

2016-11-22 Thread MichaƂ Brzozowski
Two weeks ago or so I thought of creating "Introduction for GIS users" page or something like that (explaining how OSM is different from, for a lack of better word, shapefile-based GIS). We see many questions asked over and over, but the documentation isn't really at the point of "if you can't

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Use_OpenStreetMap

2016-11-22 Thread Simon Poole
IMHO one of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap or https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Use_OpenStreetMap should be nuked. And the remaining page revised so that it actually makes some sense (which is likely easier with the page you want to work on). No setting his hopes high.

[OSM-talk] Overhaul of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Use_OpenStreetMap

2016-11-22 Thread Roland Olbricht
Hello everybody, I would like to overhaul one of the second level landing pages in the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Use_OpenStreetMap The main reason is that I've found a forum thread with a completely misinformed user https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=56469 When