On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Stewart C. Russell <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm spending a few days next week in a town in Northern Ontario. It has >> all the roads in, thanks to the import of Canada's map data by dedicated >> OSMers. What it doesn't have is the trails, museum(s), hotels, >> restaurants, shopping mall, donut shop ...
> http://walking-papers.org - gives you a map in pdf format, intended > for precisely this purpose. As the chorus has sung, walking-papers.org is a great place to start. Sometimes paper and pencil and X marks the spot is just the way to add a Tim Hortons. You can add some great local colour to the map while you are there, but you can leave an even better gift if you can share your enthusiasm for OSM with others while you are there. If you can map cool stuff in a couple of days, imagine what a new local mapper can do over the course of their residence there. Consider reaching out to the local community; there might be a potential mapper there who has never mapped because the editors scared them? You could take an hour to meet them, enjoy a coffee and ten minutes of coaching on an editor and "create" the next Vespucci of Northern Ontario. Given a limited time and a good road network as a "skeleton", perhaps mapping a smaller area, in more detail is better than adding "all the gas stations"? Perhaps mapping the town community centre, with its park, ball diamonds, soccer pitches, curling rink, hockey rinks, and the surrounding businesses will provide inspiration for a local potential-mapper? Perhaps mapping all the businesses on one side of Main Street will encourage a local to do the other side of Main Street. So in short (too late) if you can't finish building the map, try to start building a mapper. ;-) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
