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Welcome to OpenStreetMap, the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways.
OpenStreetMap represents physical features on the ground (e.g., roads or buildings) using tags attached to its basic data structures (its nodes, ways, and relations). Each tag describes a geographic attribute of the feature being shown by that specific node, way or relation.
The OpenStreetMap Wiki (this website) is a place for help documentation, technical documentation and promotional material on everything related to the OpenStreetMap project. It is not the OpenStreetMap project itself, but rather a documentation store designed to provide guidance for map contributors and users.
Beginners' Guide. 1) Join the community. 2) OSM data explained. 3) Pick your mapping technique. 4) Uploading changes. 5) See your work and start using data. 6) Additional help and resources (optional) This Beginners' Guide will show you how to add data to OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license. The OpenStreetMap License allows free (or almost free) access to our map images and all of our underlying map data.
Benvenuto su OpenStreetMap, il progetto che crea e fornisce dati geografici liberi su base mondiale. Il progetto è stato avviato perché la maggior parte delle mappe che si credono liberamente utilizzabili, hanno invece restrizioni legali o tecniche al loro utilizzo e ciò ne impedisce l'uso per scopi produttivi, creativi o inattesi.
The Overpass API (formerly known as OSM Server Side Scripting, or OSM3S before 2011) is a read-only API that serves up custom selected parts of the OSM map data. It acts as a database over the web: the client sends a query to the API and gets back the data set that corresponds to the query.
Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap in 2004, initially focusing on mapping the United Kingdom. In the UK and elsewhere, government-run and tax-funded projects like the Ordnance Survey created huge data sets, but failed to freely and widely distribute them.
It is possible to download map data from the OpenStreetMap dataset in a number of ways. The full dataset is available from the OpenStreetMap website download area. It is also possible to select smaller areas to download. Data normally comes in the form of .osm files in the OSM XML format.
You can use the OpenStreetMap world map on your website, either as a static map image or with embedded HTML. If you deploy your own slippy map, things can get much more customized. Maps on your GPS device. If you want to have a map based on OpenStreetMap on your GPS device, visit GPS Maps From OSM Data or OSM Map On Garmin for Garmin device.