Ian Sergeant wrote:
> I said:
>
> > Training and skills acquisition before undertaking complex tasks is
> > a fairly commonplace activity in our society.
>
> Gert Gremmen" wrote on 15/09/2011 04:50:11 PM:
>
> > No but the difference between Stalinism and OSM is that we do not
> *oblige*
>
I said:
> Training and skills acquisition before undertaking complex tasks is
> a fairly commonplace activity in our society.
Gert Gremmen" wrote on 15/09/2011 04:50:11 PM:
> No but the difference between Stalinism and OSM is that we do not
*oblige*
> people to follow a training process.
Ea
You lost me here, definitely ... ;<((
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com]
Verzonden: donderdag 15 september 2011 20:55
Aan: talk@openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Barriers of Entry
I'm glad that you both agree so closely.
Paraphrasing Frederi
I'm glad that you both agree so closely.
Paraphrasing Frederik, "Not all barriers are bad."
Paraphrasing Serge, "Not all barriers are good."
[removed many analogies]
I'd like to see needless barriers to understanding and using
OpenStreetMap reduced or removed. I think that we have done that
pr
btw.: there is no license information shown for the mapnik stylesheet
(at least I couldn't find it). What is the license of the style in
case someone wanted to fork it?
cheers,
Martin
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On 15 September 2011 13:37, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 15/09/11 13:05, Douglas Musaazi wrote:
>
> On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda
>> Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of
>> mapping and updating the Open Street World map as part of
2011/9/15 Douglas Musaazi :
> On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda
> Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of mapping
> and updating the Open Street World map as part of the mapping Uganda
> Initiative at pamoya (http://www.pamoya.com/node
On 15/09/11 13:05, Douglas Musaazi wrote:
On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda
Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of
mapping and updating the Open Street World map as part of the mapping
Uganda Initiative at pamoya (http://www.pamoya
Hi..?
On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda
Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of mapping and
updating the Open Street World map as part of the mapping Uganda Initiative at
pamoya (http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275), however, the sate
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Josh Doe wrote:
> I think part of the problem is the high barrier to entry for editing
> the Mapnik style.
I've made 1 commit to the main stylesheet and while it was technically
straightforward, the understanding of the community of people who work
on it wasn't. B
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Jonathan Waller
wrote:
> This clearly shows that we don't have enough people working on the mapnik
> component, which since it is the primary rendering for openstreetmap.org is
> a bad situation. It is also off-putting for bug reporters since it takes a
> bit of e
Hi.
I don't think that would help - at least as you miss the distinction
between data and information.
(Especially) for beginners the problem isn't the reliability of the
information they have (most beginners do not start armchair-mapping, at
least not without introduction of others, I think),
Hi,
I have been looking at the Mapnik bugs in trac and there are far too
many unclosed and unacknowledged bugs. In the last 4 months there have
been 55 bugs reported and 5 have been closed.
For the 20 most recent bugs 2 have been closed (one without contact with
a mapnik dev), 1 was reopene
On 9/15/2011 2:07 AM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
[snip]
Is there a reason you send messages with font size=2?
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Hi,
If a novice wants to start with JOSM , so be it, but we want
him to be attracted to something he understands right now
and prefer that before understanding the power of a real
editor.
A simple idea: Why can't a user give (for each edit, but default
being preferencable) the level of confide
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