This is a great idea, in my opinion. I hope someone implements. The Windows 3.11 tutorial is a great example of how to do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_s-py34eNU 2011/1/9 Donald Campbell II <donaciano2...@gmail.com> > I wonder how frequently something like this happens in some unmonitored >> area in the US. > > > I'm pretty sure it happens all over the place all the time. I'm one of > very few people actively mapping Guyana and just last week this new user > stuck a town in the ocean. So I politely messaged him and asked if he was > sure it belonged there and he was pretty positive it was correct. So I sent > him a permalink of it floating out there in the sea... whooops. Yeah that > was an accident. There was also a kind of random 2m track connected to a > town he made and some other little odds and ends. > > Enthusiasm is good though. > > I've often wished casual visitors could put things on the map anonymously > and that they'd go into a big moderated bucket to await approval or rather > end up in a openstreetbugs kind of layer instead. Or rather new registered > users could have "training wheels" of some sort for their first few edits. > Perhaps a set of Potlatch tutorials that would have them add the yellow > brick road to the land of Oz, then the Emerald city... a few shops, > barbers, tailors, a field of poppies, apple orchard with paths, highways, > etc... > > Then you get to touch the real world. ;-) > > Or just skip the whole thing if you like to keep the wiki-purists happy. I > think wiki believers should watch Ratatouille... yes ANYONE can edit, but > not ANYONE can be a great cook. Or something like that. :-) > > -Don. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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