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More than six million contributors make OpenStreetMap possible. Thank you for sharing your portion of the project! General topics Get Involved and see How We Map Our Beginners' guide has a section covering other tutorials for beginners It could be helpful to know about Elements and Tags The Hardware Guide advises you when buying equipment Contact channels Mapping Mapping projects Mapping techniques Category:Data collection technique Rapid Address Collection Category:Mappers' guide Good practice Editing Notes are quick and easy to use There are many editors (comparison), the most popular are iD, Potlatch 2 and JOSM (JOSM guide) Editing with transparent windows Aerial imagery Tagging 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 To find new tags search wiki or use Taginfo Editing standards and conventions If you miss a proper tag, you can start a proposal process There are already proposed features Satellite navigation Recording traces Upload traces Advanced contributing Potential Datasources For Automated Edits, we have a code of conduct Import Quality assurance Accuracy, Completeness Vandalism Conflicts Disputes Data working group Legal issues You can contribute under our contributor terms. Your contributions will be published under the Open Database License. People can use your contributions under our free licence.