I encourage everyone to improve OSM and add the not found POIs not only to appear on Organic Maps , to make everyone to have a open database of geolocated information
The Android app StreetComplete is an excellent start for updating OSM I found. There soon become occasions when you have to bring out the big guns and edit it using the web editor at https://www.openstreetmap.org/ , which is possible to do on a mobile phone if it has a big enough screen, but much easier on a laptop.
From my experience the best one currently is EveryDoor. But even if you just use Organic Maps, it has some basis functionality to add and edit places.
StreetComplete is also great and very beginner friendly, but it is mostly for completing missing information for existing places. However, I think quite recent addition was that now you can actually add new places. Haven't used it much though.
From my experience working with GTFS it's difficult because the operators usually don't include all the information but the fact of having GTFS support it's a great step
This absolutely isn’t how humans learn. Humans learn by doing. Once you grasp the basics, you can read some documentation. Otherwise there’s not enough ground for the docs to make sense.
Once you’re comfortable with the basics by all means read the table of contents to know what you don’t know. I recommend this especially when dealing with databases, it’s amazing how many people never advance past the apprenticeship part of learning software engineering.
> This absolutely isn’t how humans learn. Humans learn by doing.
That depends on both the subject and the person. Some learn better by understanding the fundamentals first. Some subjects (in CS/SE as well) might not even be approachable without it.
The way dosco189 is using GPT is perfectly fine. They aren't letting GPT do all the work for them, they're letting it explain how concepts relate to each other, something you often will not find in the documentation.
Also documentation is, how to say, heavily styled in a sense.
If you disliked a certain teaching style before you were basically screwed. I've learned some languages purely because the documentation was fun for me personally.
100% agree. Back circa 2010-2011, Apple’s obj-c documentation held back my iOS coding career. Coming from javadocs, I just couldn’t wrap my head around apple’s style.
I readed the same book. It's a great book and well structured, if you live in the USA specially because there is information about USA lifestyle like medical insurance or babysitting
