Re: [OSM-talk] Recruitment/Community Poster.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Wood wrote: | Hi all, | It would appear that the amount of OSM'ers here in Canada is a little | limited. especially in the rural areas. The bigger cities have be more | or less mapped out from the high resolution aerial photography, however | many of the street names are missing and there is very little detail | on the ammenity front. | | The only way this is going to be resolved is if we can get more locals | involved in the project. I'd like a really trivial to use road naming interface for people who live on roads that other people have traced from aerial imagery. So easy my Dad could do it - click on the road and a text box with the name and a drop down of road types appears. Type the name and press enter. Make it only usable on roads with no name - for other roads / features, you can add an edit note (which should be a FIXME tagged node). It should update the Mapnik DB as well as the real DB so that changes show up immediately. | So why not just use Google Maps (or the like)? | | Although Google makes it's maps available on the internet, it is a company | that is more interested in charging people and companies to license it's | data. This look, but don't touch means that you can't reuse the maps they | provide (without paying), and should anything be wrong good luck with trying | to get it corrected. Google are our friends. Google don't have maps of their own. I'd prefer something like Google makes maps licensed from commercial sources available on the internet. It pays a lot of money for these maps, funded by advertising. Although you can use the maps on the web for free, if you want to use them in another form (e.g. print them out or use them in computer program) you be breaking copyright law unless you license the maps from the original providers. | OpenStreetMap.com is different... AFAIK, it's usually OpenStreetMap.org, not .com. I think we should participate in and encourage the this is not for profit meaning of .org. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH6QQWz+aYVHdncI0RAs0jAKDxgH6dcG9zhItTwPhWFg4Un2iWlQCgvTzR 6As0KUIp4k4WGecbZt+9Pc4= =ZDF4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Recruitment/Community Poster.
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: I'd like a really trivial to use road naming interface for people who live on roads that other people have traced from aerial imagery. So easy my Dad could do it - click on the road and a text box with the name and a drop down of road types appears. Type the name and press enter. Make it only usable on roads with no name - for other roads / features, you can add an edit note (which should be a FIXME tagged node). It should update the Mapnik DB as well as the real DB so that changes show up immediately. I'm building just such an interface for cyOSM to enable people to easily add welsh language names to existing objects. http://brasskipper.org.uk/cyosm/test - lookups only at the moment, works upto z13, UK only. It will slowly improve as I find time. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Recruitment/Community Poster.
This is a great idea. Can I suggest that you put a copy of the text and the final poster up on the wiki so we can reuse it in other areas? Page started here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Recruitment_Poster Feel free to hack it into shape. I'll put in the suggestions made so far, if the authors don't do it by the time I get to it.. Mungewell. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Recruitment/Community Poster.
Simon, It is a same reason to start openstreetmap.jp as a poster to newbie in local language. Also show case of map. There is Japan map as almost empty and need volunteer. I am glad to see good start point about creation of Japanese poster as wiki document. Japanese one will apear on the j site soon. Hiroshi On 3/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a great idea. Can I suggest that you put a copy of the text and the final poster up on the wiki so we can reuse it in other areas? Page started here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Recruitment_Poster Feel free to hack it into shape. I'll put in the suggestions made so far, if the authors don't do it by the time I get to it.. Mungewell. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com HIroshi Miura NTT DATA Corp. and IPA OSS center （株）NTTデータ /（独）情報処理推進機構 三浦広志 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Recruitment/Community Poster.
Hi all, It would appear that the amount of OSM'ers here in Canada is a little limited. especially in the rural areas. The bigger cities have be more or less mapped out from the high resolution aerial photography, however many of the street names are missing and there is very little detail on the ammenity front. The only way this is going to be resolved is if we can get more locals involved in the project. I was contemplating putting up a small OSM poster on the local community notice boards. Is OSM ready for a flood (ever optimistic ;-) of newbies? Text could read something like: --- Put your community on The Map! The work has started, volunteers at OpenStreetMap.com have been logging the roads and rivers in your community, but now they need your help to add details of street names and local ammenities (resturants, gas stations, etc.). So why not just use Google Maps (or the like)? Although Google makes it's maps available on the internet, it is a company that is more interested in charging people and companies to license it's data. This look, but don't touch means that you can't reuse the maps they provide (without paying), and should anything be wrong good luck with trying to get it corrected. OpenStreetMap.com is different in that the data is available to everyone, for whatever purpose they want. It is based on the 'Wiki' concept where anyone can edit the maps marking the location/names of roads, ammenities, resturants, etc. In fact you can add the location of anything you want. The resultant maps are available to browse on the internet (just like Google's maps), but they are also available to download and use how you want to. If you don't like the way they look, you are able to download the source data and render your map however you like. It has been said that even the most recent map is always out of date. With OpenStreetMap as soon as a change is made on the ground, local volunteers can correct the maps and the results will be (almost) instantly available to the world. So what is needed to partipate in OpenStreetMap? For advanced mapping tools such as GPS recievers and digital cameras are useful, but simply having access to the internet will allow you to contribute by checking/editing the maps and to add that all important local information. The only real requirement is that the information is 'first hand' and is not copied from copyrighted sources (such as Google maps). --- Any comments/suggestions on the concept or the wording? Mungewell. PS. I'm not an artist, so don't expect anything too fancy. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
