On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, tony wroblewski <tony.wroblew...@gmail.com> wrote: > From experience, I know that such responses are intimidating and put > people off mapping. My girlfriend started mapping some areas when I > showed her how to do it and immediately somebody sent her an email > saying how she should be doing things because he doesn't map it that > way
I do agree there may be no single correct way of mapping some things. I am pretty liberal usually and I think mistakes that I mentioned are quite objective. I don't nag people over things that can be done correctly in many ways. > and in the end she said she didn't like it and felt intimidated and decided > not to carry on. I don't know, majority of us are grown-ups - who would know better that an individual may be not representative of a group, and that one should not take offence easily. It may be that due to our flat structure one can't tell who is important and who is not. > I think people need a playpen where they can try out ideas and map > before contributing to the main map (Maybe there already is, I don't > know). I think it should also be a requirement that people add a > comment upon every commit to avoid such arguments. I'm getting a > little tired of seeing constant updates in my area from people who > don't add comments on why or what they've changed. I do agree this is needed, as in Wikipedia. But how would people get the feedback on what they mapped? We would also need something on the data consumption side. That could be tricky. For instance, routing needs time to import data. Also, we teach people not to tag for the renderer, which is an issue as iD supports much more POI than are rendered by osm-carto. I can imagine that WYSIWYG-ing what is currently could backfire. On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Marc Zoutendijk <marczoutend...@mac.com> wrote: > Here is the link that will show you all new mappers in your country (replace > Countryname with your country of interest) > > http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosmcountryfeed.php?c=Countryname Thanks. I use openstreetmap.pl/users - usually (if it isn't out of sync), it can be faster - resultmaps update only hourly. It is also connected to the #osm-pl IRC channel. Michał _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
