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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) Uploading your changes to OSM Most editors will prompt you to enter changeset comment: iD Potlatch JOSM among many tools on changesets, additionally exposes manual handling of conflicts If you haven't uploaded your data longer than several hours or days, you may want to update your data using update tools Update Data Update selection Update modified to lower chance of conflict. You cannot avoid conflict if data modified by you was quickly altered by someone else before you uploaded your changes. (optional) more materials on conflict handling in JOSM: [1] [2] Next step See your work and start using data See also Good changeset comments - (optional) will cover why it is important to comment changesets