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How do I get started with OpenStreetMap?

I’ve been looking at OpenStreetMap in my area and there’s some stuff missing. What do I need to do to get started?

asked 06 Jul ’10, 17:40

Andy Allan
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2 Answers:

First of all the Wiki is an important resource (and available in many languages):

• Beginners Guide for an first overview
• Map making for editing the map
• Contact for communication with others to get help or discuss

And of course you can ask here if you have any other questions.

answered 10 Jul ’10, 13:01

driver2
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All of the documentation I’ve found is very much about contributing new raw data, but there’s not much of a beginners guide on using OSM /data/ that I’ve been able to find. Do I need to set up my own PostGIS and map server to be able to embed maps in my application? If so, what’s the best way to set up a simple map server? If not, what are the resources for public map servers? What is the difference between the tile server formats (WMS? TMS? Probably other TLAs?) and which should I use and why?

I’d love to see some tutorials describing map servers, tiling, how projections work, etc.

(10 Jul ’10, 13:57) RangerRick

The books available in German and English (soon) are resources that provide a lot of information in short time. I recommend reading it before reading many wiki pages.

(14 Jul ’10, 16:11) emka

RangerRick obviously this question is very much about contributing new raw data. I think your question could be a good one to ask (ask it as new question rather than a ‘comment’ here) although it’s rather a broad. There are already some questions on here which you may find helpful, about rendering for example. We also have a wiki page ‘Using OpenStreetMap’.

(21 Sep ’10, 16:57) Harry Wood

You should talk to Andy Allan 😉 He can be a hard guy to get a hold of though; alternatively, consume the Beginner’s Guide which is available in a lot of languages and will guide you in your first steps in OpenStreetMap. Any questions that you might still have we will gladly answer here!

answered 10 Jul ’10, 09:44

mvexel
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How to credit OpenStreetMap

Where you use OpenStreetMap data, you are required to do the following two things:

• Provide credit to OpenStreetMap by displaying our copyright notice.
• Make clear that the data is available under the Open Database License.

For the copyright notice, we have different requirements on how this should be displayed, depending on how you are using our data. For example, different rules apply on how to show the copyright notice depending on whether you have created a browsable map, a printed map or a static image. Full details on the requirements can be found in the Attribution Guidelines.

To make clear that the data is available under the Open Database License, you may link to this copyright page. Alternatively, and as a requirement if you are distributing OSM in a data form, you can name and link directly to the license(s). In media where links are not possible (e.g. printed works), we suggest you direct your readers to openstreetmap.org (perhaps by expanding ‘OpenStreetMap’ to this full address) and to opendatacommons.org. In this example, the credit appears in the corner of the map.

Main Page

Welcome to OpenStreetMap, the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways.

Use OpenStreetMap

• Browse our world map
• Check the ready-to-use products for your mobile device, your desktop computer or the web services
• . more on using OpenStreetMap

Contribute free map data

• Browse the map feature documentation
• Browse the Mapping projects
• . more on contributing map data

Software Development

• Use OpenStreetMap for your software
• Contribute to the OpenStreetMap software

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https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/&rut=c59bfb7b3415f64d03c5e9a9cf3ad98275431184dbfde00f535f9f42414b44d5
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/?@@wiki.home&rut=6c8c74d1212f69c3a9ebdfb93346be5da0b8922e0fcf3be98b32e267bf461e58