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OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started 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.

Show me the map! I want to see maps; get out of my way! Beginners' Guide All the resources for a complete beginner to learn about and get involved with OpenStreetMap. Map Making The complete reference to everything about editing our maps. Development Lend your programming skills to help make OpenStreetMap better. FAQs Got a question? The most common are answered here. Press Information and background for journalists. Portals +/- Mapping Potlatch · JOSM · Merkaartor · GPS Reviews · Map Features · Proposed features Community Projects Country projects · Project of the week  · Collaboration with Wikipedia Renderers Mapnik · Osmarender · Maperitive · Kosmos Routes Bicycle · Hiking · Other maps Data Binary format · Potential Datasources · Recording GPS tracks · Making GPX Files Tools Quality Assurance · Import · Export · Routing Wiki guidelines · translation · cleanup Event Calendar +/- Recent big events: SOTM + SOTM US + AGM + 6th Anniversary 2010 Sep 2 Stammtisch Dresden, Germany Sep 2 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Germany Sep 5 Dortmund Mappertreffen, Germany MAP Sep 3 Salvador Mapping-Party, Brazil MAP Sep 4 Mapping party Purmerend, Netherlands CONF Sep 6-9 FOSS4G 2010, Barcelona, Spain Sep 7 Stammtisch Braunschweig, Germany Sep 7 OSM-Treff Heilbronn, Germany Sep 7 Niederrhein/Viersen/Stammtisch, Germany Sep 9 Stammtisch Berlin, Germany CONF Sep 10-11 OSC2010 Tokyo/Fall, Tokyo, Japan MAP Sep 11 Ingolstadt Mappingparty, Ingolstadt, Germany MAP Sep 11 Montevideo Mapping Party, Uruguay MAP Sep 11 Cavite, Philippines MAP Sep 11-12 Velikiye Luki Mapping Weekend, Velikiye Luki, Russia Sep 14 Hamburger Mappertreffen, Germany Sep 15 Bremer Mappertreffen, Germany Sep 15 Stammtisch Karlsruhe, Germany CONF Sep 17-18 FrOSCamp, ETH Zürich, Switzerland MAP Sep 19 Mapping Party MV 2010, Germany Sep 20 Stammtisch Hannover, Germany Sep 20 OSM Stammtisch Reutlingen, Germany Sep 21 OSM Stammtisch München, Germany Sep 23 OSM-Treffen Essen im Unperfekthaus, Germany MAP Sep 25-26 Inpycon 2010 Bangalore, India CONF Sep 25 Día del Software Libre 2010, Curicó, Chile Sep 28 Stammtisch Bonn, Germany Sep 29 Düsseldorf/Stammtisch, Germany MAP Sep 29-30 UCL London, London, United_Kingdom CONF Oct 1-3 ICCM 2010 Crisis Mappers conference, Boston, US MAP Oct 2 Isle of Man Mapping Party, Douglas, Isle of Man Oct 5 OSM-Treff Heilbronn, Germany Oct 7 Stammtisch Dresden, Germany Oct 7 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Germany Oct 12 Hamburger Mappertreffen, Germany Oct 14 Stammtisch Berlin, Germany Oct 16 Bremer Mappertreffen, Germany Oct 19 OSM Stammtisch München, Germany Oct 20 Stammtisch Karlsruhe, Germany Oct 21 Stammtisch Hannover, Germany CONF Oct 22 Festival della creatività, Firenze, Italy Oct 25 OSM-Treffen Essen im Unperfekthaus, Germany Nov 2 OSM-Treff Heilbronn, Germany Nov 4 Stammtisch Dresden, Germany Nov 4 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Germany Nov 9 Hamburger Mappertreffen, Germany Nov 11 Stammtisch Berlin, Germany Nov 16 Bremer Mappertreffen, Germany Nov 17 Stammtisch Karlsruhe, Germany Nov 19 OSM Stammtisch München, Germany Nov 22 Stammtisch Hannover, Germany Nov 26 OSM-Treffen Essen im Unperfekthaus, Germany Dec 2 Stammtisch Dresden, Germany Dec 2 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Germany Dec 7 OSM-Treff Heilbronn, Germany Dec 9 Stammtisch Berlin, Germany Dec 14 Hamburger Mappertreffen, Germany Dec 15 Stammtisch Karlsruhe, Germany Dec 17 Bremer Mappertreffen, Germany Dec 22 Stammtisch Hannover, Germany Dec 28 OSM-Treffen Essen im Unperfekthaus, Germany

Image of the week +/- OpenStreetMap Merida, in Venezuela, meeting August 2010 Other featured images Meta Info +/- Platform Status Up and running Statistics Stats, Daily Stats Report Activity RSS feeds Sister projects Free The Postcode, Mapstraction, OpenStreetPhoto News +/- Community Updates Sep 01 New Community Updates Sep 01 Waze.com partner apologizes for cloned OSM content Aug 29 Project of the week: Turn turn turn-restrictions Aug 23 Project of the week: Add a trail ! Aug 23 New Community Updates Aug 22 Merkaartor 0.16.3 has been released. Aug 16 Retirement of gazetteer.openstreetmap.org announced. Aug 15 Project of the week: Live mapping russian fires! Aug 12 Existing contributors are now asked to accept the new contributor terms Aug 11 New Community Updates Aug 09 Project of the week: Map flooded areas in Pakistan! Aug 08 Transit Database for OpenStreetMap Routing changed from beta to final stage Aug 05 New Community Updates summary Aug 02 Project of the week: Adding trees! Aug 02 Microsoft launch an OpenStreetMap Mapnik layer on Bing Maps. older news... Community Contact Channels+/- Get together and communicate with others in the OpenStreetMap Community. Forum Discussion on the web Mailing lists Discussion by email (popular) IRC Live chat room OpenStreetBugs Quick easy way to report errors in the map Other Contact channels Download and use data+/- We have map resources covering the Haiti and Chile earthquakes, including Shapefiles and Garmin downloads. You can download data for any part or all of OpenStreetMap: Downloading data Copyright & license Contributors & attribution Lolcat of awesomeness+/- For the awesum team that organised State Of The Map 2010. You know who you are, be proud.