Preparing for my first JOSM workshop - Tips/Suggestions?
ایہہ 25؍September 2017ء English وچ «andreougm» لیکھ چھپیا گیا سی۔I am very excited to host a JOSM workshop at the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association, where I am currently a faculty fellow.This is the first OSM workshop I am running, so I would really appreciate the OSM community’s suggestions.
The plan is (a) to run a 2-hour workshop to familiarise the CBTA community (of ~30 students) with OSM and its editing options and (b) host a mapathon (OSM tasking manager)
The CBTA is a highly diverse, intellectually involved and socially active community of students. I look forward to teaching and learning from them.
Workshop countdown: 56 days :)
Discussion
ایہہ 26؍September 2017ء 01:52 تے «feyeandal» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
From our previous experiences, two-hours is too short for a JOSM workshop. You may consider using Edit with iD instead of teaching JOSM especially if the participants are beginners.
ایہہ 26؍September 2017ء 02:10 تے «Glassman» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Of course when you are done, in keeping with the spirit of OSM, head for a pub to celebrate.
Best of luck, Clifford
ایہہ 26؍September 2017ء 08:16 تے «Polyglot» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Hi Andre,
I created some scripts to automatically set up JOSM preconfigured with some interesting settings for a Mapathon:
https://github.com/osmbe/JOSMforMapathons
This works on Windows and Linux. The precondition is that Java is already installed though. Do the participants bring their own computers?
Jo
ایہہ 26؍September 2017ء 11:16 تے «Zverik» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Installing JOSM is the one thing that often goes wrong. Some computers don’t have recent Java, some have trouble with displaying fonts, etc etc.
Also, ask everyone to bring a mouse: mapping with a touchpad is painful. Mac users don’t usually think of that.
ایہہ 26؍September 2017ء 11:17 تے «Zverik» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Also, you can skip teaching tags if you teach people just a single shortcut: F3 (Fn+F3 on macbooks).
ایہہ 27؍September 2017ء 13:10 تے «andreougm» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Thank you all for the suggestions. I’ve asked the students to download JOSM in advance, but it seems like a good idea to have a pre-session and make sure that JOSM works for everyone.
Have a nice day