I recently sat down and figured it out myself, for what it's worth, but it
took quite a few hours of "hmm, is this what I'm meant to do?".
Documentation (especially on "editorial decisions") is often sparser than
on Wikipedia, so it's easier to feel a bit lost as to what you're meant to
be doing and whether you should code something as A, B or C.
It feels a bit to me like Wikipedia in 2005-6 - you can figure out what
you're doing with a bit of effort, but you're never quite sure how it's
going or if someone else approves.
- Andrew.
On Wednesday, 14 November 2012, Katherine Bavage wrote:
Sadly I'm not in London that weekend :(
However, as I said on Sunday Tom, I'm a n00b with OSM stuff but I'd like
to be able to log in for an hour or two and do my part remotely. Is this
really feasible i..e to 'learn how to map' if you're not there?
If not, no worries, I don't doubt this will be a success and I'd be keen
to help/join another event in future!
Kat
On 12 November 2012 15:30, Tom Morris <tom@tommorris.org<javascript:_e({},
'cvml', 'tom(a)tommorris.org');>
wrote:
Over the last day or so, I've been working on
putting together a new
event in London, Operation Cowboy. The plan is for it to be the weekend
after next, which is very soon, I know.
http://lanyrd.com/2012/cowboy-london/
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_OPC2012
Operation Cowboy is a plan for an all-night OpenStreetMap editathon
(mapathon!) focussed around improving OpenStreetMap for the United States,
an area OpenStreetMap is known to be not quite so good (compare San
Francisco with London: on OpenStreetMap, damn near every pub, bar and shop
in central London is on the map, in San Francisco, it's not nearly as good).
Though the best mapping we can do generally involves getting a GPS out
and walking or cycling the streets yourself, there's plenty of work that
can be done to improve OSM from your armchair.
You can read more about Operation Cowboy at:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy
Part of the point of the Operation Cowboy event is to be a place where
Wikimedians and others who haven't played around with OpenStreetMap and
want to learn can come along, learn how to set up an account and start
editing. Though we'll use the US as the focus of the event, the skills
people learn improving the US map will be applicable to improving the map
for their local area in the UK.
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