On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:04 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> > since working this out have you tried to improve the documentation > that would have made it easier for you? > I think I made one or two tiny changes. Wasn't game to make any major changes at that stage, though I have made suggestions on talk pages. I really think there needs to be a shift away from talking about GPS'ing to talking about editing, as the first thing newbies see. They can always graduate onto GPSing later. I assumed anyone used to wikipedia would have tried clicking on the edit > link. > I think I just assumed it couldn't possibly be that easy. I suggest the oldbies try this experience. Go to www.openstreetmap.org and try and find out how to edit. Likely: 1) Click "help & wiki" 2) Click "Beginners' guide" 3) See "Step 1: Collect data" with a GPS icon. 4) Run screaming. The biggest issue for me was when I first looked at OSM it seemed over > whelming, it wasn't clear cut as to how to go from a GPS trace to add > or edit map, even when I started looking into it more serious I was > still a bit bewildered by it all. > Yes the wiki hasn't really caught up with how easy it is to contribute to OSM these days, thanks to the advent of Potlatch and Yahoo/Nearmap. Most of the info is still geared towards much greater levels of involvement and commitment. Steve
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