Finding answers
- Use the search box on top right to
search the wiki
for the right page to answer your question.
- Map Features
? is useful for finding out how to tag a wide range of features, see also
Category:Features
for more content.
- Mapping projects
? page has information about many projects within OpenStreetMap on particular subjects or for particular countries/territories.
- Help and support
? provides forum-style questions and answers for common issues.
- switch2osm
? explains how to use OpenStreetMap instead of other services.
- Contact channels
? contact real users at forums, mailing list, IRC or real life meetings.
- Category:Portals
? act as "front pages" to wiki, you may also want to explore top level category
Category:Categories
.
- Disputes
.
- Finally, the
FAQ
will cover some questions.
Start contributing!
Use the
Beginners' guide
and
Contribute map data
to learn how to start contributing map data to the project. If you are interested in help on software development then head over to the
Develop
page.
How to contribute
will guide you how to use your skills.
More resources
- Reporting abuse, spam and vandalism
- Abuse
? report OSM data and system abuse
- Spam
? report spam and vandalism in articles, OSM diaries and maps
- Vandalism
? malicious alteration or deletion of map data