On Tuesday 10 June 2008 10:09:22 Steve Hill wrote: > The level of interest seemed quite high at the time, but sadly I > don't think we've got any new mappers from that group.
I attended my first mapping party two weeks ago, along with 2 other newbies. Having cycled my allotted residential street area I went home and uploaded my traces, plotted and named roads live with potlach, I also uploaded a couple of artifacts with josm, all just to see how I got on. To the best of my knowledge the other two did not edit the map but their traces were uploaded. As with all these things I found learning what to do a bit difficult and exchanged a few e-mails with more experienced mappers but I think a tutorial session prior to the party would have been effective. By the time I was confident to edit the remainder of my traces another mapper, with better detail, had uploaded the same area. I don't begrudge the time I spent as it was interesting to learn a bit more of my local area and I'm fully in support of the project but I won't risk duplicating effort like this again and shall try to learn more about refining the particular area I am interested in after the basic backbone has been put in by others. Is there a crib sheet for symbols and details anywhere, along with the respective tabs? Andrew _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
