At 10:30 am 9/18/2020 I joined OpenStreet, looking for a volunteer opportunity as I approach retirement.
OpenStreetMap
At 10:30 am 9/18/2020 I joined OpenStreet, looking for a volunteer opportunity as I approach retirement.
Discussion
Comment from Glassman on 19 September 2020 at 05:49
Welcome to OpenStreetMap. When you are ready to start mapping, I recommend mapping what you know best - usually your own neighborhood, restaurants, pubs, parks, and other areas you know well.
I encourage you to join our Slack community. Plenty of friendly people that will help answer your questions.
Did you know that OSM is one of the largest nearly all volunteer organizations? There are millions of volunteer contributors but only a handful of paid staff. We have an assistant to help the OpenStreetMap Foundation, the US Chapter has an Executive Director and we just hired our first developer and soon will be adding a IT person. There may be others but I’m not aware of them.
Clifford AKA Glassman
Comment from stragu on 19 September 2020 at 09:49
Welcome here! Good on you for joining! I hope you find it as enjoyable as I do :) All the best!
Comment from skquinn on 19 September 2020 at 10:15
Welcome aboard! This a great volunteer opportunity, especially if you travel a lot.
As you get into a rhythm of contributing, try learn who the other local mappers are, and if there are any local quirks to how things are mapped (some areas have their own ways of mapping certain things).
Even if you start out just doing small edits in iD, you may want to look at JOSM (on your computer), or StreetComplete and Vespucci (on your Android phone/tablet) among others.
If you need help figuring out JOSM or Vespucci, drop me a line. (StreetComplete is designed to be easy enough to figure out without help.)
Comment from IanVG on 30 September 2020 at 02:47
Welcome! Glad to hear you found OSM worthy of your time! Hope you have a good time mapping. Best, Ian