The whole concept of freely digitizing and editing off of other peoples work is completely foreign to me. I have a really hard time “improving” other peoples contributions to OSM. Ground truthing footpaths and buildings digitized off of old satellite imagery is one thing, but getting into attribute edits and spatial locations of point data is another. I have been contributing to mapping San Francisco State University as a cartography assignment/fun project. In reviewing some of my peers work such Gpriceless, I found the contributions made to be pretty accurate. It has been very cool to see how the map of SFSU on OSM has changed in the past week since starting this project. Being able to go out into the field and acctually digitze in a GIS environment based off of my own field notes has been a really cool experience that I have previously not had. I have digitzed literally hundreds of thousands of features sitting in an office chair, not knowing if what I was creating was even really there at the time I drew it. Using OSM and Fieldpapers was a comforting mapping experience, knowing I was making something that truly represents real time data! #SFSUcarto

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