OpenStreetMap Welcome Mat

Welcome Mat for OpenStreetMap community and Foundation. OpenStreetMap is the free and editable map of the world, created and maintained by a huge international community. Anybody can create an account and start editing on OpenStreetMap.org within minutes.

These guides are licensed under (CC-by) if you would like to contribute or have any feedback on these, please feel free to raise an issue in this repository.

What's new with OpenStreetMap?

There are many ways to find out what’s new with OpenStreetMap. OSM has official social media channels at https://twitter.com/openstreetmap and https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap/.

The official blog is at https://blog.openstreetmap.org/.

There is an independent weekly newsletter at http://www.weeklyosm.eu.

Google News is frequently updated with articles about OpenStreetMap too.

Or just try searching the web or social media for OpenStreetMap. There are hundreds of articles and blog posts about OSM.

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