>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-nI93RBqoZGZxcHcycXRfMzFnaDQzejJmaw&hl=en The QGIS/Mapnik one: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUeMslP3EFo2ZHJkYnhiNF83ZHpjNXQ2Zno&hl=en -Kate On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Hillsman, Edward <hills...@cutr.usf.edu> wrote: > 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 section of > it, and help reconcile it with other sections as they get written. Richard, > given your experience and obvious thought on the matter, could you maybe > sketch a high-level outline to get us started? > > Ed > > Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D. > Senior Research Associate > Center for Urban Transportation Research > University of South Florida > 4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100 > Tampa, FL 33620-5375 > 813-974-2977 (tel) > 813-974-5168 (fax) > hills...@cutr.usf.edu > http://www.cutr.usf.edu > > > >> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT) >> From: Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> >> To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Community Involvement >> Message-ID: <1279732052442-5321954.p...@n2.nabble.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> >> Apologies for butting in on your mailing list - thought this one was >> sufficiently non-US specific it deserved an answer. >> >> Toby Murray wrote: >> > Yes, navigation is a pain. The "map features" page is a pretty >> > good index of things to map but it often links to proposal or stub >> > pages (like the doctors page) that don't give a lot of information >> > about "how to map this feature" but rather offer discussions about >> > the tag or some OSM jargon that is not really helpful to >> > newcomers. The problem is that as one gains more experience >> > within OSM those pages DO become somewhat helpful so there >> > is little incentive for experienced mappers to change them to >> > make it better for new mappers. >> >> We desperately need a real OSM Beginners' Guide (rather than the apology >> that currently passes for one on the wiki), written by people who care >> about >> documentation, focusing on the basics, and liberally illustrated with pics >> and videos. >> >> And I hate to say it, but it shouldn't be open to general public editing - >> otherwise you get the situation at the moment where people come along and >> add their personal hobby horses every other day, and it degenerates into an >> unreadable, sprawling, unfocused mess. >> >> It's not just about tag documentation (to a certain extent, better editor >> presets are making that less important), but about a general introduction >> to >> OSM. A DokuWiki install on dev.osm.org, with a small team writing the core >> docs, would be a good way to do it. I'd love to have a go (after all, my >> day >> job is as a writer and editor), but what with Potlatch and all don't have >> the time to head up such an initiative. But it would be the single most >> useful thing anyone could do for OSM right now. >> >> I did suggest to Mr Weait of this parish that he might like to be involved, >> as he has a clear track record in writing nice how-tos on his blog. Maybe >> we >> could get a team together? >> >> cheers >> Richard >> -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
