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Beginners' guide

1. Join the community
2. Collect data
   • GPS
   • Tracing aerial imagery
3. Upload your GPS data
   • Save your files to GPX
   • Uploading GPS Data
4. Edit maps
   • General tips
   • Potlatch
   • JOSM
   • Downloading Into JOSM
   • First basic road
5. Edit data
   • Adding Tags
   • Uploading changes
6. See your edits live and start using the map
7. Additional help

Now that you've made your first contribution to OpenStreetMap (congrats!) it's time to see it on the map.

Your edits will appear on OpenStreetMap's main map within a few minutes, though sometimes it takes longer. They'll also propagate to the many other maps based on OpenStreetMap data, and be available for other editors to improve upon.

If you'd like to do more than just see an updated map, check out the documentation on Using OpenStreetMap for custom rendering, offline maps, and custom styles, and the Develop page for all software that can be written based on OSM's dataset.

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