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Welcome to OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started 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.

Show me the map!

I want to see maps; get out of my way!

Beginners' Guide	All the resources for a complete beginner to learn about and get involved with OpenStreetMap.
Map Making	The complete reference to everything about editing our maps.
Development	Lend your programming skills to help make OpenStreetMap better.
FAQs	Got a question? The most common are answered here.
Press	Information and background for journalists.

Event Calendar ^+/-

Recent big events:State Of The Map and 4th Anniversary party

	Aug. 19	München Monthly Meeting
MAP	Aug. 20 (Evening)	16th London Mapping Marathon Event in Tulse Hill
CONF	Aug. 23-24	FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin, Germany. Blackadder speaking.
MAP	Aug. 23-24	Mapping Party: Drogheda, near Dublin, Ireland
MAP	Aug. 23	Mapping Party: Blairmore, Alberta, Canada (info)
CONF	Aug. 23	Nantes (France) Linux group something
	Aug. 23, 18:00	4. Würzburger Mappertreffen
MAP	Aug. 24	Cabañeros mapping party, Toledo, Spain
MAP	Aug. 25-30	Mapping Party Schmalkalden, Germany
CONF	Aug. 26, 19:00	Richard presents Introduction to OSM at NewTLUG, (Toronto)
	Aug. 28, 19:00	Nürnberg/Fürth/Erlangen Treffen, (Germany)
CONF	Aug. 29,	OSM Beginners Introducion, Women only, at Informatica Feminale, Bremen, Germany
MAP	Aug. 29 - Sep. 5,	OSM Informatica Feminale Mapping Party, (woman, you can bring your boyfriend!), at Informatica Feminale, Bremen, Germany
CONF	Aug. 30, 14:00 BST	OpenStreetMap Foundation Annual General Meeting, London
CONF	Aug. 30	Nantes (France) Linux group something
CONF	Sept. 1-4	Andy Allan presents on OSM Cycle Map at Society of Cartographers conference, Aberdeen, UK
	Sept 4	DresdnerOSMStammtisch People interested in OSM meet in Dresden/Germany
MAP	Sept. 7	Hannover, Mapping Party
CONF	Sept 8	Richard presents introduction to OpenStreetMap at Kitchener Waterloo Linux User Group
	Sept. 9	Hamburger Mappertreffen
	Sept. 11	4. Stammtisch Berlin
MAP	Sept. 12-15	Welsh Mapping Party Weekend
CONF	Sept. 13	OSM NL User Day at Software Freedom Day kickoff, Baarn (NL)
	Sept. 16	München Monthly Meeting
	Sept. 17	Leipzig
CONF	Sept. 18-21	OSM at NavarParty 6, Navarra University, Spain
MAP	Sept. 18-21	Ribera del Xúquer mapping party, as part of Algecampus (Valencia, Spain)
MAP	Sept. 20	Software Freedom Day Mapping Party Fiesta
MAP	Sept. 19-21	Hamilton Mapping Party
MAP	Sept. 20-21	Montreal mapping party [1]
MAP	Sept. 20-21	Sherbrooke Mapping Party
MAP	Sept. 20-21	Kitchener-Waterloo mapping party
MAP	Sept. 27-28	Bradford Mapping Party (details soon)
MAP	Sept. 29	M'appare Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Italy
CONF	Sept. 29 - Oct. 3	FOSS4G2008, Cape Town, South Africa.
	Sept. 30	Göttingen Kick-Off Meeting
CONF	Sept. 30 - Oct. 2	InterGeo with OSM booth, Bremen, Germany.
	Oct. 1	Stammtisch Hannover, 6. Treffen
	Oct. 2	DresdnerOSMStammtisch
	Oct. 9	5. Stammtisch Berlin
MAP	Oct. 11-12	Ibiza mapping fiesta
MAP	Oct. 18-19	Kiev mapping party
	Oct. 21	München Monthly Meeting
CONF	Oct. 24-26	FSCONS 08, Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit, Göteborg, Sweden
	Nov. 2	Stammtisch Hannover, 7. Treffen
	Nov. 6	DresdnerOSMStammtisch
CONF	Nov. 5-7	Tentative OSM talk at JIDEE08 at Magma event centre, Tenerife
MAP	Nov. 8	Tentative Tenerife mapping party
	Nov. 13	6. Stammtisch Berlin
CONF	Nov. 15 + 16	Come2Linux2008Essen, Essen, Germany
	Nov. 18	München Monthly Meeting
CONF	Dec. 1-5	Tentative OSM at 4th gvSIG conference, plus OGC Technical Committee Meeting, at Valencia
	Dec. 2	Stammtisch Hannover, 8. Treffen
	Dec. 4	DresdnerOSMStammtisch
MAP	Dec. 6-7	Tentative Valencia outskirts mapping party
	Dec. 11	7. Stammtisch Berlin
	Dec. 16	München Monthly Meeting

Image of the week ^+/-

The PTGMAP application uses actual OSM data which is converted by Mkgmap into a garmin map file on your PC. Everything is ready for mapping. You see a district in Basel, Switzerland.

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