Contribute map data
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General topics
- Get Involved, understand What We Map and How We Map
- Our Beginners' guide has a section covering other tutorials for beginners
- It could be helpful to know about Elements and Tags
- The Hardware Guide advises you when buying equipment
- Contact channels
Mapping
- Mapping projects
- Mapping techniques
- Category:Data collection technique
- Rapid Address Collection
- Category:Mappers' guide
- Good practice
Editing
- Notes are quick and easy to use
- There are many editors (comparison); the most popular are iD, Potlatch and JOSM
- Editing with transparent windows
- Aerial imagery
Tagging
- Map Features - most popular tags in OSM
- Category:Tagging guidelines by country - for tagging rules specific to some country / territory
- Category:Features - for tags grouped by their purpose or function
- Category:Proposed features - to find new tags and not-popular-yet tags
- To find new tags search wiki or use Taginfo
- Editing standards and conventions
- If you miss a proper tag, you can start a proposal process
- There are already proposed features
Advanced contributing
- Potential Datasources
- For Automated Edits, we have a code of conduct
- Import
Conflicts
Legal issues
- You can contribute under our contributor terms.
- Your contributions will be published under the Open Database License.
- People can use your contributions under our free licence.