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 hard work/contributions of other OSM community members - am concerned about what state the map would be left in if there were lots of mistakes generated. 2. Would feel more comfortable with a sandbox - with the idea of graduating on to helping these people contribute to OSM for real. Do you feel it would be OK to edit the live map? Can you point me to any materials available? I would greatly appreciate that. Thanks again in advance, Peter On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Kate Chapman <k...@maploser.com> wrote: > 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, there are many out there to get people > started. > > Best, > > -Kate > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Peter Mooney <petermoone...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 is the most community-acceptable way to allow people to "test >> out" editing in OSM (via Potlatch) which harming the data in the live >> database? Under no circumstances will editing of the live database >> take place in the workshops. >> >> Is there an alternative to setting up my own local OSM server? >> >> Best wishes and thanks in advance, >> >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
