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Videos for new contributors

3	Are there instructional videos for new OpenStreetMap contributors? newbie video tutorial asked 17 Aug '11, 20:20 Richard Weait 3.0k●13●34●52 accept rate: 17%

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David Ellams created some videos in June 2011 covering the basics of openstreetmap editing with Potlatch2 (default editor on the osm.org website). They have been subtitled in may languages and can be found at:

answered 18 Aug '11, 15:25

Matt Williams
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OpenStreetMap contributor, emacsen, just announced a new series of OSM videos.

In honor of OSM's birthday, I present to the OSM community a new series of videos on OpenStreetMap.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCE6296A33CF47955&feature=mh_lolz
They're a set of Khan Academy style videos. That is they're each short 5-15 minute videos on a particular topic of OpenStreetMap. Right now there's about two hours of video, covering the basic concepts: all the way from nodes and tags, to routing, changesets and rendering.

answered 17 Aug '11, 20:25

Richard Weait
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4	Did you have already a look at the OSM wiki at Video_tutorials ? There are some of them ... answered 17 Aug '11, 20:30 stephan75 12.6k●5●56●210 accept rate: 6%