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One of Kaart's core missions is to empower individuals with the tools and knowledge necessary for personal and professional growth. To contribute to this goal, our team regularly releases free, high-quality training materials designed to equip people with new skills. These resources are aimed at a wide audience, from students to professionals, beginner to experienced mappers, offering guidance in a variety of OpenStreetMap topics.
Introduction to OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, open source platform. Read more about it here.
Basic OpenStreetMap Training
To get started editing in OSM, understanding the various tools and editing skills is necessary in order to contribute high-quality data to the map.
Basic Tools
To get started with OSM, we recommend that you understand a few different tools that will be helpful in your journey.
- Introduction to JOSM - learn how to setup and use basic features of JOSM.
| Basic Tools | ||
| Training Focus | Training | Description |
| JOSM | Kaart: Useful JOSM Filters | A comprehensive guide to creating and applying filters in JOSM, enabling mappers to highlight or hide specific features based on tags, geometry, or other attributes, thereby enhancing the efficiency and precision of the editing process. |
| Kaart: JOSM Advanced Settings | (add description) | |
| Kaart: JOSM Filters, Presets, Paint Styles and Validator | A comprehensive guide to enhancing JOSM's functionality through filters, presets, paint styles, and the validator, enabling mappers to efficiently visualize, edit, and validate OpenStreetMap data. | |
| Kaart: JOSM Plugins(verify) | (add description) | |
| Kaart: JOSM Download and Optimization | A comprehensive guide for installing, updating, and configuring JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap Editor), including setting up preferences, enabling remote control for task managers, and optimizing display and toolbar settings to enhance the mapping experience. | |
| Kaart: JOSM Usage | A comprehensive guide to using JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap Editor), covering its user interface, toolbars, dialog panels, keyboard shortcuts, and imagery integration, aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of mappers working with OpenStreetMap data. | |
| Kaart: Kaart Paint Style | A comprehensive guide to the Kaart paint style, detailing its default features, classifications, icons, feature styles, and customizable settings, aimed at enhancing the visualization and editing of OpenStreetMap data using JOSM. | |
| Kaart: Keyboard Shortcuts | A comprehensive guide to keyboard shortcuts for both JOSM and iD/Rapid editors, detailing default hotkeys, platform-specific variations, and customization options to enhance editing efficiency. | |
| Kaart: Miscellaneous JOSM Tools/Items | A comprehensive guide to advanced JOSM tools and techniques, including creating sandbox layers for practice, saving editing sessions, using the Tag Multiple Objects tool for batch tagging, and finding imagery dates, aimed at enhancing mapping efficiency and accuracy. | |
| Kaart: MapWithAI Plugin | (add description) | |
| Editing Platforms/Tasking Managers | Kaart: ID and Rapid Guide | (add description) |
| Kaart: Maproulette Guide | (add description) | |
| Kaart: Tasking Manager Guide | (add description) | |
Basic Editing
The OSM map is made up of a variety of features. Read about them in the trainings below.
| Basic Editing | ||
| Training Focus | Training | Description |
| Basics | Kaart: OSM Communication Best Practices | Guidelines for effective communication within the OSM community, emphasizing the importance of clear and respectful changeset comments, appropriate use of community channels, and adherence to local mapping conventions to foster collaboration and maintain a positive environment. |
| Kaart: Name Tags | Comprehensive guidelines for correctly tagging and editing name-related metadata in OpenStreetMap, including best practices, common and less common tag usage, and tips on how to do naming consistency. | |
| Kaart: Object History Preservation, Notes, Fixme, and Issue Investigation | Guidelines for preserving object history, appropriately using notes and fixme tags, and investigating issues to maintain data integrity and accountability in the OpenStreetMap community. | |
| Kaart: Editing objects in OSM | A comprehensive guide on how to add and edit objects in OpenStreetMap using various editing platforms such as JOSM, iD Editor, and Rapid, detailing the processes for creating nodes, ways, and polygons. | |
| Kaart: Pedestrian Features | Detailed guidance on mapping pedestrian infrastructure, including sidewalks, footways, cycleways, crosswalks, stairs, and pedestrian areas, emphasizing best practices for accurate tagging and classification to enhance pedestrian routing and map quality. | |
| Kaart: Water Features | Comprehensive guidelines for mapping various water-related features in OpenStreetMap, including ferries, slipways, piers, docks, and dams, detailing appropriate tagging practices and connectivity considerations to ensure accurate representation of these elements in the map data. | |
| Kaart: Waterways | Comprehensive guidelines for mapping linear water features such as rivers, canals, streams, and drains, detailing appropriate tagging practices and considerations for accurately representing these elements in the OpenStreetMap dataset. | |
| Roads | Kaart: Access and Barrier Tags | A comprehensive guide for mapping physical barriers and access restrictions in OpenStreetMap, detailing tagging practices, workflows, and common barrier types to ensure accurate representation of accessibility and routability. |
| Kaart: Oneways Guide | Detailed instructions on correctly tagging one-way streets in OpenStreetMap, including the use of oneway=yes, oneway=no, and oneway=-1, as well as guidance on reversing way directions and handling conditional restrictions to ensure accurate representation of traffic flow. | |
| Kaart: Signs | Comprehensive guidelines for mapping traffic signs in OpenStreetMap, detailing the tagging of various signs such as stop signs, give way signs, and speed limits, with instructions on both point-related and section-related tagging methods to accurately represent traffic regulations and conditions. | |
| Kaart: Tunnels, Bridges, Fords, Etc. | Comprehensive guidelines for mapping and tagging tunnels, bridges, and fords, including instructions on using the layer tag to indicate vertical relationships, best practices for naming and routing, and considerations for pedestrian and seasonal crossings. | |
| Kaart: Road Classifications Guide | A comprehensive framework for categorizing roads based on their function, traffic volume, speed, and connectivity, detailing the appropriate tagging practices for each classification—from motorways to pedestrian paths—to ensure accurate navigation and planning data. | |
| Kaart: Road Geometry Guide | Comprehensive guidelines for accurately mapping road geometries, emphasizing best practices such as aligning to clear imagery, using an appropriate number of nodes to represent curves without overcomplicating the data, and correctly splitting or combining ways at junctions, tunnels, and bridges to ensure precise and efficient road representations. | |
| Kaart: Road Tagging Guide | Comprehensive guidelines for accurately tagging road features, including classification hierarchy, surface types, access restrictions, signage, turn restrictions, lane configurations, and parking features, to ensure precise and effective representation of road networks in OpenStreetMap. | |
| Kaart: Turn Restrictions | Comprehensive guidelines for accurately mapping and tagging turn restrictions in OpenStreetMap, including the use of restriction tags such as no_left_turn, no_right_turn, and only_straight_on, as well as considerations for conditional restrictions based on time, vehicle type, or other factors to ensure precise representation of traffic flow and navigation rules. | |
| Buildings | Kaart: Building Geometry Guide | Comprehensive guidelines for accurately mapping building footprints, emphasizing best practices for geometry creation, alignment with imagery, handling overhanging structures, and ensuring data consistency to support high-quality mapping and analysis. |
| Kaart: Building Tagging Guide | Comprehensive guidelines for accurately tagging building features in OpenStreetMap, covering topics such as building tagging basics, handling building parts, skybridges, distinguishing between buildings and other objects, and utilizing common tags like layer, level, and address to ensure precise and consistent mapping. | |
Advanced OpenStreetMap Training
Advanced Tools
Advanced tools are typically tools that help you validator your/others edits or help you better interact with the community in different ways.
| Advanced Tools | ||
| Training Focus | Training | Description |
| QC Tools | Kaart: OSM Deep History | A comprehensive guide for exploring the historical changes of OpenStreetMap objects, detailing methods to view and compare different versions of nodes, ways, and relations using tools like JOSM and the web-based OSM Deep History interface. |
| Kaart: Achavi | A comprehensive guide to using the Achavi tool for visualizing and analyzing changesets in OpenStreetMap, offering insights into recent edits, their impacts, and facilitating the review process for mappers and reviewers. | |
| Kaart: OSM Users | Guidance on understanding and analyzing OpenStreetMap user activity, including methods for tracking contributions, identifying active mappers, and utilizing tools to assess mapping patterns and trends. | |
| Kaart: OSMCha | (add description) | |
| Community Tools | Kaart: OSM Welcome Tool | Guidance on using the OSM Welcome Tool, a web application designed to assist new contributors in finding and completing beginner-friendly mapping tasks within their local areas, thereby promoting engagement and growth within the OpenStreetMap community. |
| Kaart: uMap | (add description) | |
Advanced Editing
Advanced editing involves more complicated tagging schemes like route relations, multi-polygons, resolving conflicts with other editors, etc.
| Advanced Editing | ||
| Training Focus | Training | Description |
| Advanced Editing | Kaart: Conflicts and Resolution Guide | A comprehensive training resource aimed at helping mappers understand, prevent, and resolve data conflicts in OpenStreetMap, with a focus on tools like JOSM and ID/Rapid. |
| Kaart: Multipolygons | A comprehensive guide on creating and editing multipolygon relations in OpenStreetMap, detailing their structure, roles, and practical applications using tools like the ID Editor and JOSM. | |
| Kaart: Route Relations | A comprehensive guide for understanding and editing route relations in OpenStreetMap, detailing their components, editing tools, and practical applications for various transportation types. | |