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Beginners' guide  Join the community OSM data explained Pick your mapping technique Uploading changes See your work and start using data Additional help and resources (optional) More about tags It is time to learn a little about OpenStreetMap's tagging scheme: Map Features - most popular tags in OSM Category:Tagging guidelines by country - for tagging rules specific to some country / territory Category:Features - for tags grouped by their purpose or function Category:Proposed features - to find new tags and not-popular-yet tags Advice Start with objects you want to use and learn their tags in OSM, read wiki if you need to tag more objects There are many tags that can be used to list all the facts about a road (or whatever you happen to be mapping), but to start with, and just to make your first contribution, you need to add only a highway tag for a road or shop for shops. From this point on, you should be able to see your work rendering (appearing) on OSM's maps, and add more and more details. Use search at wiki Main article: Searching the wiki It will be much faster than guessing tag in English. Contact community and local mappers Many of Contact channels contain places where you can ask questions about tags. Next step Uploading changes