Open

Street

Map

Fundamentals

By Asyrul Hafetzy

Contents

  • Navigation
    • Map Dragging
    • Zoom in out
    • Points (nodes), lines (ways), areas
    • Features
  • Points
    • Add
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • undo / redo operation
  • Areas
  • Lines
    • Add
    • Update Shape
    • Delete
  • Building
    • ​Add and edit House
    • Adding a circular building

What is Open Street Map

  • Free and editable world map
  • A place to map things that are real and current
    • includes millions of buildings, roads, and other details about places.
    • can map whatever real-world features are interesting to you
  • DOES NOT include:
    • ​opinionated data
      • ratings, historical or hypothetical features, and data from copyrighted sources

Basic Terms 

An editor is a program or website you can use to edit the map.

 

A node is a point on the map, like a single restaurant or a tree.

 

A way is a line or area, like a road, stream, lake or building.

 

A tag is a bit of data about a node or way, like a restaurant's name or a road's speed limit.

 

Navigation

Use middle mouse or the + / - keys to zoom!

Features

Three main types of features:

  1. Points (or nodes)
  2. Line (or ways)
  3. Area (or Polygon)

Feature Editing

Feature Editing

Points

Points

Points Deleting

Areas

Areas

Lines

Lines

Lines

Select Line Feature Type

Lines

Lines

Updating Shapes

Lines

Updating Shapes

Lines

Deleting

Lines

Deleting

Buildings

Buildings

Buildings

Buildings

Edit and Reshape

Buildings

Adding Circular Tanks

Draw a simple shape

Buildings

Adding Circular Tanks

Help

The End

 

Thank you

Open Street Map

By Asyrul Hafetzy

Open Street Map

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