On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]> wrote: > The exchange between Frank Cox and others about importing data is a perfect > example of an ongoing problem with this list: Many of the discussions and > "answers" are simply too GIS geeky for the vast majority of us.
Any discussion regarding import of data is going to be technical. The answer to anyone who find a technical discussion about imports difficult or overly complex should be a request for them not to do anything. > Frank asked for a simple "do x then do y" kind of explanation. Several > members replied, but no one but Paul Norman tried to give him that kind of > answer. Unfortunately, Paul's answer contained a lot of GIS technical > language. Obviously, he's very knowlegeable, but he didn't put the > explanation at a level where Frank and the rest ofus could understand it. For the vast majority of editors, this is a non-issue. Frank could be doing a normal survey and have no trouble at all. But what he brought was a fairly complex, technical request, and what he got back were a series of technical answers. He may not have understood them, but they were at the same complexity as the original question. > That's why reading the list often is frustrating. There's a lot of talk > about technical issues and minutiae, but little guidance for those of us who > just want to map using Potlatch 2, which is most of us. Let's not mix up this with the original request. The original request was highly technical. > What can be done to make Talk-US more useful for the average mapper? Ask not what OSM can do for you, ask you can do for OSM. - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
