Graham Jones <grahamjones139 <at> googlemail.com> writes: > > > Hi, > I think improving the documentation for new users (and experienced ones too!) is a really good idea - I think we lack information for the casual new user. > > The disadvantage of directing this group to Potlatch is that they need to understand quite a few concepts before they can really do anything (nodes, ways, tags, the fact that there is no definitive list of approved tags etc. etc.).
This mail from developer mailing list is also worth reading: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2010-August/020239.html An excerpt from that mail says (please read the whole message still to understand what is the meaning of 'simple editor') "The OSM data model is complex and sophisticated, and any attempts at a 'simple' editor will simply mess up other peoples work. Especially when you start touching relations, which seeing as relations themselves involve nodes and ways that's pretty much any editor." OSM statistics at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats are showing that the number of active OSM contributers stopped growing about one year ago. Perhaps one reason for that is just the complex and sophisticated data model, together with growing interest of creating relations and editors which cannot hide the complexity yet. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk