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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] How to avoid conflicts (optional) This is tricky question since if you are the only person who edits some area you may never see one. But in dense cities conflicts may occur more often due to many users editing same data at once. Use a real or imagery Cake diagram to avoid conflicts with other mappers (optional) Category:Collaborative software will let you automate this process to some degree Reduce time download-upload window By using smaller changesets. By submitting them more often than usual Consider submitting regular change-sets if conflicts no longer an issue Next step See your work and start using data See also Good changeset comments - (optional) will cover why it is important to comment changesets