On of the comments: >I took a look, and blow me down, my road was missing. So I registered, and >tried to add it. I failed. A project that's all about the people adding the >>roads, and I couldn't for the life of me work out how to add a road. >An "Add Road" option, maybe? Oooh nooooo, nothing like that. (I managed to >move a few other roads around accidentally while trying things, but I think >I >managed not to save those changes.) >I won't be going back.
Here we see how a Newbie meets OSM : a missing "Add Road" option. I think he is representative for a lot newbies.... What can we learn from that ???? (I suppose he tried Potlatch) Could a few small help buttons with a label readin (add road) leading to a basic help page do something for this guy ?? Or could some macro system help him ? ert Gremmen ----------------------------------------------------- Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) Before printing, think about the environment. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Steve Chilton Verzonden: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:20 AM Aan: Ed Loach; D Tucny; Talk Openstreetmap Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg I am just waiting for David Earl or someone else to comment on the "firstness" statement! Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Educational Technology Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: [email protected] http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ SoC conference 2008: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/ _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Loach Sent: 11 February 2009 10:00 To: 'D Tucny'; 'Talk Openstreetmap' Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg I saw this yesterday and wondered why it took El Reg so long to report on this? The announcement made these mailing lists on 23rd December last year. Ed From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D Tucny Sent: 11 February 2009 09:31 To: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/brum_map/ Couple of nice links there, both to the map and the home page... Comments in the comments section are largely at the same level of positiveness and understanding as is largely normal on the reg these days (read mostly negative)... d _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
