On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Parveen Arora <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I am organising event to do online mapping, to increase the enrichment > of OSM maps, also we have set up a lab to train the students and to > make them able to work on OSM on that day. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hack_the_Map [ ... ] > Please give your valuable suggestions to make it better, also add the > points that you wants to take care about during this kind of online > event event.
I'm sure there have been similar events before. I apologize for being critical of your event. It seems to me that training new mappers about OSM only with "armchair" mapping techniques misses an important opportunity. To be sure, aerial imagery can be a helpful resource when mapping. But aerial imagery is only one resource, and it is one that is often a years-old reference. Even aerial imagery that is current offers only a limited perspective. Please include real field work as part of your event. It is that real field work that provides the very best, most current, data to a mapper. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
