Welcome to the project. We are always glad to have more mappers working with us. Please make sure that anything you add though is not from a copyrighted source. I am not sure what the policy of English Heritage is regarding their information but we have to be careful to only use out of copyright sources, sources we have permission for, or (best of all) information gathered directly by our own mappers.
One of the best ways you can help the project is by ground-surveying your own neighbourhood to add points of interest, like businesses and schools, and also to add addresses of buildings that are traced from satellite imagery (we have permission to trace from the Bing imagery that you will find in the editor). If you don't have a GPS the http://walking-papers.org/ website will let you print out maps you can write notes on and then the map can be scanned and uploaded to the website to trace over in the editor.
I hope you enjoy working on the project, and don't be afraid to make changes, but the copyright issue is one we have to be very careful of if we want the map to remain freely useable by everybody.
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Comentariu de la AndrewBuck pe 23 octombrie 2011 la 15:00
Welcome to the project. We are always glad to have more mappers working with us. Please make sure that anything you add though is not from a copyrighted source. I am not sure what the policy of English Heritage is regarding their information but we have to be careful to only use out of copyright sources, sources we have permission for, or (best of all) information gathered directly by our own mappers.
One of the best ways you can help the project is by ground-surveying your own neighbourhood to add points of interest, like businesses and schools, and also to add addresses of buildings that are traced from satellite imagery (we have permission to trace from the Bing imagery that you will find in the editor). If you don't have a GPS the http://walking-papers.org/ website will let you print out maps you can write notes on and then the map can be scanned and uploaded to the website to trace over in the editor.
I hope you enjoy working on the project, and don't be afraid to make changes, but the copyright issue is one we have to be very careful of if we want the map to remain freely useable by everybody.
-Buck