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Add a Trail to OpenStreetMap

a shaded trail through the woods

Let's add a trail to OpenStreetMap.

Multi-use trails add character to a neighbourhood and to a map. Here is a way to add your local trail to OpenStreetMap. This is a suitable first mapping project when you get a GPS receiver, and this is the sort of mapping that you can do with family and friends.  read more »

Add a POI from JOSM

There are several editors for contributing OpenStreetMap data. Some describe JOSM as powerful. Others describe it as opaque or User Unfriendly. The truth is that it is just selective about its friends. Let's make friends with JOSM.  read more »

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Definitions

Nodes? Ways? Relations? What are they? (coming soon)
What is a POI? (coming soon)
What is Potlatch? (coming soon)
What is Josm? (coming soon)
What is Mapnik? What is osmarender?
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Look at Frank's Log Book

thumbnail image of Frank's OSM Log Book

This is Frank's Log Book.
Look at your log book; now back to Frank's.
Now back at your log book; Now back to Frank's!
Your loose sheets of graph paper are not Frank's log book.
But they could be if they were bound and organized like Frank's log book...
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Add a Retail Plaza to OpenStreetMap

Shops in Cambridge Ontario

There is a small group of shops in your neighbourhood and you wish to add them to OpenStreetMap. This is a tutorial that will lead you through the steps required to add a small group of shops to OSM. You'll be able to complete this contribution to OSM in about one hour.

Let's go mapping.  read more »

Explore New Territory with a GPS for OpenStreetMap

Adding information about your neighbourhood to OpenStreetMap can be relatively simple when there is local data to use as landmarks. Sometimes you want to explore terra incognita and add data for which there is no local reference for dead reckoning. This tutorial takes a first look at using a GPS receiver to collect a track file for use as a reference when adding information to OpenStreetMap.

Using a GPS receiver to collect data for OpenStreetMap is very helpful for a scenic bicycle trail or relaxing canoe trip.  read more »

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Add a Bike Rack to OpenStreetMap


This tutorial for the OpenStreetMap beginner will show you how to make your first contribution to OpenStreetMap in under an hour.  read more »

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