Dear docsam, First off I want to mention that you are doing great work mapping Mindanao. I'll answer a few of your concerns.
If you don't hear from anyone that means either your are doing it correctly or no one is around to check your edits. I suspect it is the former. :) I did corrected a few of your edits a few days ago. This is related to using the ref tag. Apologies for not informing you of my corrections. Here is my changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8925161 I usually add a descriptive changeset comment so that other will understand what was edited. > 1. i've been submitting data to osm but up to now i still dont have the > confidence if im doing it right. no one is telling me if what im doing is > right or not. maybe a local forum osm-ph shouls be created or maybe there > is but im not aware of it. or atleast a personal mail to really direct to > the person concerned the things that needs to be corrected. Yes this is true. Perhaps others can share their own experience on the point > polygon conversion. > 2. we have a vague standards as to the placement of the waypoints and what > i noticed, not all waypoints uploaded form part of the map. most waypoints > are later transformed into polygon. even the classifications of roads are a > guessing game to me. JOSM is the offline tool while the edit tab or potlatch is the browser based editing tool. I personally use JOSM because it has more editing capabilities and I can edit data offline. Both editor has its own benefits and issues. > 3. i believe that there are a lots of people who would like to contibute to > osm since its an international site but theres no clear tutorial site. to > name a few, like whats the difference of using josm and the osm edit tab > portion? how to make polygons, what qualifies a waypoint to be a polygon? -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
