Re: [Talk-us] Community Involvement

2010-07-22 Thread Hillsman, Edward
I also agree that this would be an excellent idea (I just introduced a class of about 25 students to OSM last night, and I really would like something clean and organized to point future classes to). If someone can put together an outline of such a Beginner's Guide, I'm willing to work on a

Re: [Talk-us] Community Involvement

2010-07-22 Thread Kate Chapman
From our trips to Haiti we have documents on data collection, editing to use of OSM. They are focused on the Humanitarian tagging scheme though. Here is the JOSM training manual: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ab5-nI93RBqoZGZxcHcycXRfMzFnaDQzejJmawhl=en The QGIS/Mapnik one:

Re: [Talk-us] Community Involvement

2010-07-22 Thread Thea Clay
I totally agree with the idea of a group working together on improving how-to documents and the beginners guide. I would love to help since I volunteered to work on this project at SOTM in Girona. I have been working on a few general guides and tutorials for new mappers, how to's for hosting