Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?
On 2010-09-22 3:47 PM, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Take a look at Walking Papers: http://walking-papers.org/ This does a similar thing, but with printouts that can be given to non-technical mappers to make notes on. You then scan the annotated map back into Walking Papers, which makes it available as a background in Potlatch (or JOSM, if you like). The printouts are just PDFs, so you may already be able to hack something together using Walking Papers, but certain take a look and talk to Michal. Yes, of course! I was working from the idea of Walking Papers, but trying to apply it to screen-based editing. But I could just *use* images straight from WP! The biggest problem I have is that not all of the notes made on the maps will be of interest to OSM, and in some cases will contain private data. So I was figuring on doing a fair bit of processing myself (there's usually only three or four field assessors doing the data collection). I shall look into getting the JOSM Walking Papers plugin to use images from a local source. (This project, by the way, if anyone's interested, is to assist power pole assessors in Western Australia; people who travel thousands of kms a month all over the state, driving all the back ways and small roads, and taking note of fences, gates, power lines. We've started using OSM data for locating poles, and I thought it'd be nice to feed some of our data back in to the map.) - Sam. ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?
On 2010-09-22 4:17 PM, John Smith wrote: On 22 September 2010 18:10, Sam Wilsons...@archives.org.au wrote: (This project, by the way, if anyone's interested, is to assist power pole assessors in Western Australia; people who travel thousands of kms a month Are you planning to upload pole locations to OSM? The poles are of interest to some, but I'm thinking the pole reference numbers to lat/lon would be useful. Someone else expressed interest in emergency phone reference numbers, so they could be used to more quickly locate people, apparently private road ways don't need to supply this information to government. Ultimately, yes, but although I've got this data now (for all 3,340,068 of them), it's not allowed to be used. It's awfully wrong, too, in lots of cases! So, it's forming the basis for pole locating, and then the confirmed positions will come back, and hopefully be allowed to be used in OSM. Even if the locations and reference numbers of the poles are held back, the other stuff -- roads, tracks, fences, gates, etc. -- will be fine to upload. all over the state, driving all the back ways and small roads, and taking note of fences, gates, power lines. Do these people keep GPS tracks by any chance? Yes! And they *used* to be accessible to me. Recently, however, we moved to a different system, and I am still negotiating how they can be used. I'm hoping to impress management with the pole locating stuff, and then they'll see the value of helping make the map better and better. - Sam. ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
Re: [OSM-dev] How to get non-technical users easily editing (offline)?
On 22/09/10 5:55 PM, Shaun McDonald wrote: Have you taken a look at Potlatch2? It allows you to customise the interface easily, so that only the appropriate things that are needed for that group of editors is shown, thus making it easier for them. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch_2/Deploying_Potlatch_2 Unfortunately, this all has to work offline, so Potlatch can't help me. But really, that idea of limiting an editor to a specific set of tags (etc.) seems great; anyone know if one of the offline editors would lend itself to that sort of thing? - Sam. ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
