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 Mooney <petermoone...@gmail.com> 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 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 > -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk