We did not expect these problems Andy. Now we know, I did work with experts, and Now that I know what I know now, deeper and more consultation would have been mutually beneficial.
On Thursday, October 19, 2017, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/10/2017 16:53, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote: > >> >> But one thing is for sure if we want to do university to community >> collaboration, and we want to experiment, teach and learn, flexibility is >> required and maybe sandbox practice spaces or testing space. >> > > Absolutely - I've become something of a broken record on OSM's mailing > lists suggesting that people try things out on OSM's "dev" server or some > other sandbox, and create their own copy of OSM's rendering server so that > they can test out map style changes. Using a different server will have > knock-on effects if you're relying on other tools outside of OSM though > (e.g. Mapillary - you'd need to talk to them about whether they can create > something that works with a test server). > > Before you started the assignment did you ask about any kind of sandbox > (or even "ask about what you needed to ask about"?). It's great that the > local OSM community have got involved with help students out at eg. > https://github.com/TraceyLauriault/COMS2200A , but I suspect that a bit > more warning might have avoided people been taken by surprise. "Find your > local OSM community and talk to them about what you're planning to do" > would probably be the 0th thing that I'd suggest for any academic project > like this. > > Additionally, it'd be great to know what other specifc feedback you have > for other people planning similar things. If there are specific > outstanding general questions maybe https://help.openstreetmap.org > /questions/ might be a good place to ask them? It's not well suited to > questions relevant to one mapper only but it's great for "how do I find out > how to do XYZ with Overpass" or similar. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- *Tracey P. Lauriault* Assistant Professor Critical Media Studies and Big Data Communication Studies School of Journalism and Communication Suite 4110, River Building Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa (ON) K1S 5B6 1-613-520-2600 x7443 tracey.lauria...@carleton.ca @TraceyLauriault Skype: Tracey.P.Lauriault https://carleton.ca/sjc/people-archives/lauriault-tracey/
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