2009/12/18 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> While it's a noble pursuit to help a specific demographic I think it's >> important not to exclude others in the process, most areas I've lived >> in in the last 12 months have no NearMap coverage, there is some >> coverage with the Qld property boundary data, that doesn't help in >> northern NSW, where GPS traces is almost the only way to accurately >> import ways and POIs etc. > > Sure. The editor experience in a nearmap enabled area is completely > different though. I don't even have a GPS and I've already made a large > number of edits. The front page almost needs to ask the question upfront - > do you live in one of the following areas - then guide them as appropriate.
This is a documentation issue, not a viewing issue, the OSM website is a bit disjointed, once a local entity is sorted out I'm planning to get a localised a website setup and from there we can start to implement our own idea on how to introduce people into OSM. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
