Welcome to the project. I see you added the location of a hostel to the map. When we add locations of buildings and things like that we put the address over the actual building itself rather than on the roadway as you have done. I looked at trying to move the node for you, however I don’t know exactly where it should go.
Also, be advised that we cannot take anything from google maps, google streetview, or even the google satellite imagery. The only sources we can accept are things you survey yourself, things from your own personal knowledge, and things you trace from the microsoft bing imagery available in the editor (we have an agreement with them for this imagery, but not with google). The reason for these limitations is that we want to share our data freely with the world and to do so we need to create the data entirely from our own sources, we cannot copy from other copyrighted sources.
Regarding your interest in environmental issues, I have mapped quite a few things of environmental significance myself and there are others working on this as well. We have so far mapped wind turbines and other power plants, oil wells, animal feeding operations, community gardens, and many other things.
I and others are available on the #osm IRC channel if you have any further questions, or you can ask them here, or on http://help.openstreetmap.org/
Hope you enjoy working on the project. Let me know if you would like me to help you get started on mapping enviromental things or anything else. I can help you via voice chat on skype or google talk if you need detailed instructions to get started.
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Comment from AndrewBuck on 13 ஆகஸ்ட் 2012, 05:39
Welcome to the project. I see you added the location of a hostel to the map. When we add locations of buildings and things like that we put the address over the actual building itself rather than on the roadway as you have done. I looked at trying to move the node for you, however I don’t know exactly where it should go.
Also, be advised that we cannot take anything from google maps, google streetview, or even the google satellite imagery. The only sources we can accept are things you survey yourself, things from your own personal knowledge, and things you trace from the microsoft bing imagery available in the editor (we have an agreement with them for this imagery, but not with google). The reason for these limitations is that we want to share our data freely with the world and to do so we need to create the data entirely from our own sources, we cannot copy from other copyrighted sources.
Regarding your interest in environmental issues, I have mapped quite a few things of environmental significance myself and there are others working on this as well. We have so far mapped wind turbines and other power plants, oil wells, animal feeding operations, community gardens, and many other things.
I and others are available on the #osm IRC channel if you have any further questions, or you can ask them here, or on http://help.openstreetmap.org/
Hope you enjoy working on the project. Let me know if you would like me to help you get started on mapping enviromental things or anything else. I can help you via voice chat on skype or google talk if you need detailed instructions to get started.
-AndrewBuck