Join the community
Join the community
Before you can contribute to OpenStreetMap you will need to sign up and agree to make all your contributions available for reuse under the license that OpenStreetMap uses. This is an important stage and allows every contributor to the project to see who has added data to the project and possibly send them a message. The terms and conditions ensure that anyone can use your work in future without needing to ask for your permission each time.
You do not need to use your real name as your user-name. Many people use other names which are memorable but do not allow them to be identified. You will be required to provide an email address to authenticate your account, but this will not be made public. You will receive emails when other members of the community send you a message, but not otherwise.
- You need to sign up here
Congratulations, you are now a member of a very large community of contributors to OpenStreetMap! As of December 2011 there were over 500,000 people from all round the world who have done what you have just done.
You are now ready to add some data to the project so click 'next' to go to the next page.
