On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org>wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 11:09:51 pm Sajjad Anwar wrote: > > > On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 8:50:15 pm Sajjad Anwar wrote: > > > > We recently had a very good experience getting involved in the > > > > OpenStreetMap project through a mapping party. The event was really > > > > interesting. As a part of the promotion of OpenStreetMap in and > around > > > > Kerala, we are planning to organize a series of mapping parties. > From > > > > > > the > > > > > > > above party, we have learned how to organize a mapping party and > > > > created > > > > > > a > > > > > > > document on that. The document is here > > > > <http://geohackers.in/content/howto.html>. Please go through it and > > > > > > leave > > > > > > > your comments/suggestions. > > > > > > where is the map you created? > > > > The map is here > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.32007&lon=75.93383&zoom=17 > > But this is the first attempt, hence the map is incomplete, the quality > of > > work is very poor. The document is a step forward to improve the quality. > > > > I think you have totally missed the point of mapping - the idea of > openstreetmap is to produce usable maps. Not to have parties. As far as I > can > see you have not touched the map since your party. And people who see your > map > will laugh at you - and laugh at OSM. Mapping is an activity that has to > take > place every day. And remember, it is a *street* map - which means it must > show > streets, roads and pathways. It must show buildings. I see a mini canteen > there. How does one get to it? No road? not even a footpath? And how do the > ladies get to their hostel? It is not even necessary to have a GPS > instrument > to sketch these things in. You have an outline. Now fill in the buildings, > sketch the streets, paths, gardens, trees. Even if it is not precise, when > you > get an instrument you can correct it. For the last few months you have been > talking about your party - and how you are going to hold parties in all the > engineering colleges in Kerala. Please stop talking and writing documents - > and start mapping. If you want to know how a map should look like, refer to > the examples Prof Rai and I have shown you. > I understand your points very well. We are reworking on the map. > > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Project Officer > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > -- Sajjad Anwar http://sajjad.in +91 9995 19 13 12
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