Hi from Syria

I’m very impressed by the achievements of all the OSM contributors and as an IT student it was very nice to see how all this tooling is open-source.

I found OSM while searching for alternatives to Google Maps, that’s mainly because our country is sadly under restriction from the high majority of services provided by US companies.

And even if it was not for the restrictions, it would be for the price.

So I’ve found OSM and started diving step by step in it’s wiki. Until I was able to understand how the map can be mirrored, rendered and customized.

Then with some checks of my local area I wanted to do some edits as an experiment and oh god the tooling is amazing.

Huge thanks for everyone who worked on OSM whether on it’s software, organization or even contributed to it’s database!!

As a start I marked some appartement buildings, lets so how this goes.