Well done! Thank you! Nice for this newbie to have a guide. Kind of bewildering otherwise!

Good instruction.

Unable to see where you click for instructions on a given road, way, path, etc. Unable to see where the various paths come from. Unable to see where "+" is found. When you say "click", right or left click?

Your cursor does not show on my computer.

Unable to find how to insert a place via actual coordinates - what I was looking for.

slick

very good, i got it

Nice Work! Much faster watching than reading all the documents. Hope there is a similar lesson on uploading traces...

Thanks a lot!

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Thanks the demos.

video 2.

Nice overview of potlatch.

Just fyi, for the casual person investigating this site and its tools, it might be more motivating to show early on (in one of the first videos) how the typical nav user might use this site/data. So far this seems focused on how to contribute, not on the real end-user experience.

Very helpful as a newbie.

Thanks a lot!

nice intro movie

nice intro movie

Thanks for the intro. Didn't realise editing OSM was so straightforward.

Great stuff, really informative and easy to follow. I just found out about the application and want to use it as soon as I can and your tutorials have been a great help in clarifying matters.

Thanks for sharing. I also like the fact that you are using a mac, and I am going to look for the app "Ishowu).

Cheers and keep up the good work.

Interesting introduction to the software, but remind that not everybody has english as mother tongue... your speech is sometime very irregular in speed and my understanding was poor...

Thanks to speak clearly with the Queen accent not too stressed!

well! All I was needing to add a hamlet ;) thx

Very useful videos, I started to correct and add information in my city (POIs, road direction...). I do not know if I save it correctly becouse I do not see it in public view.

Good video of how to use potlatch. Ihope you didn't permanently save any of the changes you made!

Excellent. Particularly the demonstration of it supporting you as you both demonstrated and learnt.

Many thanks, much helpfull

Jon (Bilbao Spain)

Good video, you explained what I can do and how to do it, please tell me also what NOT to do and how to avoid mistakes. Good job!

Cheers - got me started!

Way to go, Steve!

very good work steve, i like that its real life usage, rather then documented.

I'm catching on to authors British accent a little better after watching video 2.

Next up is video 3 and I hope to discern even more.

OK - that was the tutorial I needed - potlatch.

Generally good. Could have used how to extend an existing way (road), but I suspect some wiki digging will tell.

Murphy's law (?Sod's law) strikes as usual during demos and tutorials. (typos, down servers, etc.)

V useful as a starting point. Gives the user confidence to go in and make changes. Thanks

I am just beginning and your video was VERY helpful in getting me started. I shall watch it a few more times to make sure I got everything you showed and then will try it out in practice in my neighborhood.

Thanks,

"Old Fred"

excellent Jolly Mapper

Useful but not very organized.

thanks.

20 minutes after joining and I'm confident enough to edit my local area in potlatch

Very nice. Your informal style is amusing, too.

Good quick-start summary for editing.

Very helpful video that shows both the tricks and the foibles of the Potlatch editing process. As a beginner, I will feel a lot better about using it now that I have seen that even the video creator has occasional glitches. Thanks very much.

I'll see all your videos Thanks

Great tutorial, but I was looking for another piece of information: how to enter the geographical coordinates of some point, if they are known. By point I mean a node (part of a way or independent POI).

Example: I know tne exact coordinates of a monument, obtained via GPS...

Regards,

Răzvan

Good overview of the software. I will need to look at it several times to catch everything you showed.

Thanks for the tutorial. I now get a better sense of what openstreetmaps can do

v.good

Fantastic, please another one with advanced features please ...

ok

Very interesting. I will be back to do more learning.

Thanks

PS What does "You get my vote!" mean?

Nice video - I just have used AndNav2 navigating me from town to home, really nice ! So I love it!

nice done!

Great tut! That helped me! Thanks

Good job, Steve.

Excellent and good work. Keep it up.

With best regards

Bency

No video for Safari 3.2.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.7 Intel. MacBook Pro. Works fine with Firefox 3.0.10 on the same machine.

I've tried to determine the Flash Player version using http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html but it shows nothing either. So I assume that the Flash/Safari combination isn't working properly.

FF shows 10.0.r22 in about:plugins

OpenStreetMap looks awesome!

I had trouble finding docs on how to make a closed way, so I'm glad it was in this video.

Also, when I made changes, they don't appear on the rendered version. After digging, I think it's because it's only rendered every once in awhile, which is clear in the docs, but not in this video.

Best,

Dan

tutorial was well done, but it will take a while til I really get into it.

Devo rivedere l filmato, ne ho visto solo metà enon posso quindi dare un giudizio ancora. Non posso rivedere il filmato se non lascio un feedback ma non posso lasciare un feedback senza vedere il filmato, servirebbe un pulsante per "lasciare un feedback in un secondo momento".

Grazie

Hey Steve, you did a good job explaining things. However, I didnt expect OSM to be that complex and as a raw recruit I've got to keep up motivation until work on that excellent project starts flowing more smoothly. Anyway these kinds of tutorials are a great help for a starter. THANX and bye

Chris

Great video to get a first understanding how edit osm, unfortunately the video was interrupted several times due to slow internet access I guess

OS 10 latest version no video

This was a very helpful video for a newby!!

very helpfull thanks

good

Great video! I was a little intimidated about editing the map, I thought it would be hard to learn.n This is a great help. I like this project and want to contribute. Thanks for showing me how to.

A helpful intro - thanks

Thank you!

good basic information

Thank you for a good instruktional video, I am a beginner so please more of this to learn how to do. Lars

Very helpful demo. Thank you.

I would like to go to the Jolly Mapper pub.

Hello Steve,

it was very helpful for me. But if you speak slower, then more foreigner can understand you, I think

Greetings from Germany

Uwe

It is very clear to understand the basis

thanks a lot for this informative video. It's very helpful!

Thanks

Nice!, tnx!

Good video, lots of useful information in it.

Good stuff! Where I'm at is I want to create areas for work (U.S. Census). So I want to outline an area and then divide it with labels for the areas and then add notations. Maybe that will come in later videos.

It was a bit helpful but it didnt show how edit uploaded GPS tracks.

Thanks !

Good beginning.

The road I live on needs to have the name corrected. I shows as part of another road rather than a separate name. I want to know how to change just the end portion of that road. Is there a way to do this without redoing the whole road?

I live in Monkton, VT, USA. The road I live on is Monkton Ridge. The map includes this a part of Monkton Rd - the last .25 mile is actually Monkton Ridge.

I have only been using the play mode so I don't mess up any portion until I understand what I am doing.

I also want to label the small Lake west of this same road. Is there a method other than calling this an area and labeling that area?

Thanks for such a useful tool.

Bob

Thanks, helpful to this beginner

Merci

The video was very helpful in learning how to use potlatch.

The video was very helpful in learning how to use potlatch.

Hello,

I'm very excited to have found openstreetmap.org (actually, a friend sent me a link who knew that I loved maps). I am glad for your video tutorials or I would be absolutely lost. However, I feel like I need a beginner's beginner guide, if that makes sense. I need more basic questions answered, like: what sort of things are mapped and why? This entire mapping community is entirely new to me. I understand the interest in mapping routes-- but isn't the purpose to openstreetmap to map actual roads, not routes? Don't governments or private agencies regularly update maps? If so, then what is the purpose of civilians mapping? Can these maps be printed for use?

Thanks!

Slow down!!!!!

Go over the command menu for Potlatch, one command at a time.

Potlatch is NOT intuitive. For example, if I enter alphanumeric info into a field and press the enter key, I expect something to happen. This is not the case with Potlatch. The idiosyncrasies of this program must be learned.

Excellent tutorial. It didn't mention bridges which still have me foxed but I will get round that.

Very many thanks. Unfortunately the downlad speed was poor at my end. Willie Angus

Many thanks for taking the trouble to set this up.

Unfortunately (and I presume this has nothing to do with the tutorial and everything to do with my computer) I got 5 seconds tutorial then 30 seconds nothing while the next section downloaded. That made for a mindnumbingly long tutorial...(any way round this?)

lot of panning around, confusing...

the basics are missing: how to save, when is data ssaved

Video ends abruptly after approx. 2 mins - Please fix soon as am very interested.

Regards

Pete

Very nice guide :D

Well anonymous, there is a wiki (wiki.openstreetmap.org) and we're all volunteers so why don't you get off your high horse and do it yourself?

Hi Anon. OSM can easily be considered a part of the free/open-src movement - ShowMeDo is all about documenting free and open systems. We think that the free software world's biggest problem is the lack of documentation - we're trying to address this problem.

Re. $30 to watch the videos - you only need to subscriber to our club to watch some of our specially-produced Python videos - the vast majority of our content is free (you don't need to pay or even register as a member).

Re. torrents - we've never thought about adding torrents, each video is typically 5-30mb so a torrent would seem like overkill. If you have suggestions we'd be happy to hear them in our main ShowMeDo author group?

http://groups.google.com/group/showmedo

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Ian (co-founder)

Why put the OSM learning videos on this sucky site? $30 just to download and watch them. Where's the torrents?

Hi Steve!

Very good second video! Keep'em coming! Maybe you should try recording a fixed portion of the screen (if that's possible).

Lucas

Hi Steve, I'd never seen Potlatch before so this is a great introduction. Seeing the traces over satellite images is very nice.

Cheers,

Ian.

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