Greetings,
One of the things I've done is work with a local High School and
introduced them to OSM through Mapzen. Mapzen is comparable to potlatch.
Use mapzen and use the wiki to look up the things you're putting in -
i.e. - parking lots. Look at all the tags/things that can go into that -
the two make for a great learning tool.
I'm a pretty competent ArcMap user - My "path" with OSM editing has been
Potlatch -> Mapzen -> Meerkartor -> JOSM. I still make a ton of
mistakes - but it's fun - I would even say relaxing.
Take a look - Mapzen.cloudmade.com
Randy
On 8/6/2010 1:00 PM, Stefan Brandle wrote:
Hi. The following may be outside your time and interest scope, but I am
interested in hearing from anybody who is willing to nibble on my
requests. I have never actually done any mapping work, but joined this
list and lurked with the hope of starting to learn about the tools and
issues.
I teach computer science at a university about half way between
Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne. I would love to have someone show us how to
get involved mapping precise data locally and submitting it to various
online data sets, or working on software that is helpful to OSM and
others. We have students who need senior projects, and also run the
occasional special topics class.
If anybody is interested, I would like to start a dialog, or at least
get some pointers to the right direction.
-- sb
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