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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 + AGM 2010 MAP Jul 31 Cartographier le zoo de Lille, France Jul 31 North London BBQ meat-up, UK Aug 3 Stammtisch Braunschweig, Germany Aug 3 OSM-Treff Heilbronn, Germany MAP Aug 3 5pm-late, Central Detroit, USA MAP Aug 3 Mon village à la carte, France Aug 5 Stammtisch Dresden, Germany Aug 5 Kartfika klockan 18.00 Stockholm, Sweden Aug 5 Mappa Mercia user group social in Nuneaton, UK Aug 6 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Germany MAP Aug 7 WikiProject Taiwan/2010, August 7, Tainan, Taiwan CONF Aug 7 OSC2010Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan Aug 11 9. Zürcher Stammtisch, Switzerland Aug 12 Stammtisch Berlin, Germany Aug 13 Mappertreffen Würzburg 18:00 Uhr, Germany CONF Aug 14-15 State of The Map US, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Aug 15 Bremer Mappertreffen, Germany CONF Aug 15 Intro to OSM talk @ Summer Camp 2010, Ottawa,Canada Aug 16 OSM-Stammtisch-Odenwald, Germany Aug 17 München Monthly Meeting, Germany Aug 19 Ingolstädter Stammtisch, Germany Aug 20 Stammtisch Hannover, Germany MAP Aug 21-22 Fin de Semana de Mapeo en Lima/Lima Mapping Weekend, Lima, Peru Aug 22 OSM-Treffen Essen im Unperfekthaus, Germany MAP Aug 22 Mapping party Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Aug 25 Düsseldorf/Stammtisch, Germany Aug 31 Stammtisch Frankfurt/Main, Germany Sep 2 Stammtisch Dresden, Germany Sep 2 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Germany MAP Sep 3 Salvador Mapping-Party, Brazil CONF Sep 6-9 FOSS4G 2010, Barcelona, Spain Sep 7 Stammtisch Braunschweig, Germany Sep 9 OSM-Treff Heilbronn, Germany Sep 9 Stammtisch Berlin, Germany CONF Sep 10-11 OSC2010 Tokyo/Fall, Tokyo, Japan Sep 15 Bremer Mappertreffen, Germany CONF Sep 17-18 FrOSCamp, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Sep 20 Stammtisch Hannover, Germany Sep 20 OSM Stammtisch Reutlingen, Germany Sep 23 OSM-Treffen Essen im Unperfekthaus, Germany MAP Sep 25-26 Inpycon 2010 Bangalore, India CONF Oct 1-3 ICCM 2010 Crisis Mappers conference, Boston, US Oct 5 OSM-Treff Heilbronn, Germany Oct 7 Stammtisch Dresden, Germany Oct 7 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Germany Oct 14 Stammtisch Berlin, Germany Oct 16 Bremer Mappertreffen, 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 11 Stammtisch Berlin, Germany Nov 16 Bremer Mappertreffen, 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 17 Bremer Mappertreffen, Germany Dec 22 Stammtisch Hannover, Germany Dec 28 OSM-Treffen Essen im Unperfekthaus, Germany </noinclude>

Image of the week +/- Participants of Graian Alps Mapping Party, the second event on Italian mountain. We were guest of Gran Paradiso National Park at the hunting lodge of King 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 +/- Jul 25 Maperitive now has a map tile generator and hypsometric tinting function (more). Jul 11 SotM is all over! See State Of The Map 2010 page for session details. Jul 10 Announced: Potlatch 2 public alpha testing Jul 10 Announced: help.openstreetmap.org for Q&A. Jul 7 Maperitive now exports map bitmaps with KML and OziExplorer MAP sidecar files. Jul 5 First version of ArcGIS Editor for OSM released Jul 1 - 3 July 2010 DB Upgrade. Server downtime for scheduled maintenance from 1st to 3rd July Jul 1 There are six candidates applying for three chairs in the OSMF board. 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.