On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Sajjad Anwar <sajja...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > 1. The beginners' guide on the wiki is the best place to start > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide > 2. Usually, what I do is to trace out maximum details from the > satellite imagery of the area first and then go out with a GPS device > to collect missing information. Which area and how big is the > neighborhood you are intending to map? How long will the mapping party > be? We can help you structure the process a bit if you can let us know > about this. > 3. There are several OpenStreetMap Editors. These tools are used to > edit the GPS data/satellite imagery and 'tag' them suitably to create > the map. Potlatch > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.3.2) is the > easiest and web based tool. JOSM > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.3.3) is a very > efficient offline tool. > </snip>
I have been using my Samsung Galaxy Y phone (Android 2.3.x). The application I use for mapping is OsmAnd available on Android market. It lets you easily create/edit POIs (only basics, no advanced tagging). Also you can use it to capture tracks to GPX, upload them to OSM and then use Potlach2 to create roads from those tracks. You can check my edits here [1]. About 60% of them are directly done from OsmAnd, about 20% are creation of road based on the GPX tracks. Remaining 20% are direct edits using Potlach2. As Ishan already said clear view of sky improves the precision. If you are very close to a building or between closely spaced building then the precision is unreliable. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/onkarshinde/edits Cheers, Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
