Contributors' guide - Your first edit

This page describes a historic artifact in the history of OpenStreetMap. It does not reflect the current situation, but instead documents the historical concepts, issues, or ideas.

About

This was a guide on how to contribute to OpenStreetMap. In contrast to the beginners' guide it focused on editing OpenStreetMap only.

Impact on OpenStreetMap

It was one out of numerous attempts to update or rewrite the beginners' guide.

Reason for being historic

It has never been updated since its initial creation. The guide uses Potlatch 2 which is no longer available.

Captured time

2011

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Home

Sign up

Familiarisation

First edit

to be added

to be added

Aims

By the time you get to this page you should have registered with OpenStreetMap and familiarised yourself with the editor. In this session you will make some small changes to the data in OpenStreetMap. These changes will then form part of the live OpenStreetMap database.

To add a point of interest

To be added - this tutorial is still being developed

To improvement the alignment of features

To add some additional features using aerial photography

To view elements in the editor

To save your changes

Summary