Contact some local existing contributors before hand. If you let them know
what they're doing, they can be understanding when they suddenly see lots
of new users adding to the area. They may even be able to come in and help
with the demo if you invite them. Almost all mappers are friendly, and will
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> Potential problem with taking their own neighborhoods is that many
>> students typically live in the same neighborhoods (on campus for
>> example) which may cause conflicts
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
[ ... ]
> Potential problem with taking their own neighborhoods is that many
> students typically live in the same neighborhoods (on campus for
> example) which may cause conflicts when saving edits.
Quite true. I don't know anything about
Richard, all,
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
[...]
> Inform the new users that they are editing a real map, made
> cooperatively by many real people. Demonstrate to them a real survey
> that leads to a real edit. This takes research to find a real,
> non-trivial edit like a
2011/11/1 Martijn van Exel :
> I'm also a proponent of live editing for teaching.
+1
> If you're concerned
> about ruining contributors' work, try and find an area / some areas
> with relatively little community activity, but still ample possibility
> for improvements, for students to start wit
I'm also a proponent of live editing for teaching. If you're concerned
about ruining contributors' work, try and find an area / some areas
with relatively little community activity, but still ample possibility
for improvements, for students to start with.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Peter Moon
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Peter Mooney wrote:
> Hi Kate,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> My idea is that the students would take the skills from the workshops
> and then start contributing to OSM.
>
> I suppose I have two reasons (just personal ones) for not allowing
> editing the real map in th
Hi Kate,
Thanks for the reply.
My idea is that the students would take the skills from the workshops
and then start contributing to OSM.
I suppose I have two reasons (just personal ones) for not allowing
editing the real map in the workshop.
1. Don't want to cause errors/deletions etc on the har
Am 01.11.2011 20:49, schrieb Kate Chapman:
Hi Peter,
Why wouldn't you just teach them how to edit to add real information?
I can't speak for the whole community, but I think that is the best
way to teach them. There are workshops held all over the world where
people immediately make edits to Op
Hi Peter,
Why wouldn't you just teach them how to edit to add real information?
I can't speak for the whole community, but I think that is the best
way to teach them. There are workshops held all over the world where
people immediately make edits to OpenStreetMap.
If you need help with materials
Hi,
I am doing some teaching in a few weeks time on Neogeography. I intend
to show the students the workings of OpenStreetMap and in particular
how to contribute data and edit/update existing features.
I am aware that http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/ exists for testing.
My question is:
What
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