OpenStreetMap

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Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap.

Hacker News.

The post provides a quick guide for beginners interested in contributing to OpenStreetMap within 15 minutes.

It walks through creating an account, downloading JOSM, selecting a small area, filtering data, and adding a website tag to local businesses.

The tutorial emphasizes that adding a website makes it easier to gather other info like phone numbers and hours.

did he use? Did he use Google maps as like the input or what did he use? Like, how did he get the town into Minecraft?

It was OpenStreetMap and like USGS, US, you

know,

geographical something, public data.

go to your representative and ask why isn't this in the curriculum and things like that.

And then I would also say a couple of our teachers inspired by OpenStreetMap.

I think many of your listeners probably know what OpenStreetMap is.

And the Youth Mappers activity, which they may not know, USAID, the former USAID, had started a development program launching clubs called Youth Mappers in universities around the world.

And they ended up with hundreds of these clubs where people were empowered by using OpenStreetMap in their community for development purposes.

Well, two of our high school teachers that come to Geography 2050, that's our annual symposium in New York City, about the, you know, how we can better understand kind of the future of our planet through geography.

A couple of them learned OpenStreetMap and brought it back to the high school and created Teen Maptivist Club.

So if you go to teenmaptivist.org, this is another thing.

I'm Quincy Morgan.

I'll be talking about something new from OpenStreetMap US that's mapping features with a new tool we're calling Layer Keg.

I love talking to a crowd like this, because most of you know what OpenStreetMap is, but if you're not, sure, it's the world's largest repository of free vector data that anybody can edit, and certainly the most active project.

And because anyone can edit it, and anybody can use that data, it's really a collaboration between people all over the world, and the people who make the map, edit the map, and the data itself.

And that's where OpenStreetMap US, as our US-based non-profit, sits.

between those two things.

Trying to support the map and support the mappers.

But today, I'm talking to you about Layer Cake.