On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 11:09:51 pm Sajjad Anwar wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 8:50:15 pm Sajjad Anwar wrote: > > > We recently had a very good experience getting involved in the > > > OpenStreetMap project through a mapping party. The event was really > > > interesting. As a part of the promotion of OpenStreetMap in and around > > > Kerala, we are planning to organize a series of mapping parties. From > > > > the > > > > > above party, we have learned how to organize a mapping party and > > > created > > > > a > > > > > document on that. The document is here > > > <http://geohackers.in/content/howto.html>. Please go through it and > > > > leave > > > > > your comments/suggestions. > > > > where is the map you created? > > The map is here > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.32007&lon=75.93383&zoom=17 > But this is the first attempt, hence the map is incomplete, the quality of > work is very poor. The document is a step forward to improve the quality. >
I think you have totally missed the point of mapping - the idea of openstreetmap is to produce usable maps. Not to have parties. As far as I can see you have not touched the map since your party. And people who see your map will laugh at you - and laugh at OSM. Mapping is an activity that has to take place every day. And remember, it is a *street* map - which means it must show streets, roads and pathways. It must show buildings. I see a mini canteen there. How does one get to it? No road? not even a footpath? And how do the ladies get to their hostel? It is not even necessary to have a GPS instrument to sketch these things in. You have an outline. Now fill in the buildings, sketch the streets, paths, gardens, trees. Even if it is not precise, when you get an instrument you can correct it. For the last few months you have been talking about your party - and how you are going to hold parties in all the engineering colleges in Kerala. Please stop talking and writing documents - and start mapping. If you want to know how a map should look like, refer to the examples Prof Rai and I have shown you. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
