On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > Forgot to share with list as well. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> > Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:11 PM > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM > contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model > To: mick <bare...@tpg.com.au> > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:23 PM, mick <bare...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > [..] >>> If OSM is taught in the classroom and this results in lots of errors, >>> then either OSM was not the right subject to teach, or was not taught >>> well ;) >> >> Letting utter novices loose on live data strikes me as crazy, they will make >> dumb mistakes that even a GOOD instructor could easily miss, what would it >> take to provide a 'dummy' server that could be readily be downloaded and >> installed at the training site, perhaps along the lines of a 'LiveCD'. > > That's an interesting thought, but part of the excitement of > contributing to OSM is the instant gratification of seeing your own > improvements on the map and being able to share your knowledge with > the world right away. Having new contributors make their first > contributions in a sandbox environment takes away a lot of that > excitement. Moreover, I think it's important for novices to feel the > responsibility and power of > editing a live database, something they will only be able to > appreciate if they actually do it. > > Sure, they will make mistakes at first. Everyone does. It's no big > deal, as long as people are willing to improve and learn. I for one am > glad that not many of my early 2007 edits are still around.
I have suggested to franz that he setup his own api server for a small section of town, to invite noobs from the town to work on that, I would help him review and merge the data when it is done. they should just work on making a perfect map of a small section of jakarta, and when that is finished, then we can look into merging that into osm. I think it would be ok and the work would be doable. Even if he published an OSM file at the end with a section of town and asked it to be reviewed and imported. as long as he has a copyright assignment paper from the contributors that would work. it would be better than letting all these noobs loose on the live server to make a mess. mike _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
