Welcome, great that you want to help! Please see the answers for [im-new-how-can-i-start-to-help-want-to-insert-missing-streets-and-use-a-gps](/questions/19356/) (the [first answer](/questions/19356/a/19364) seems to be most useful to me). You could stop after the step "upload to OSM". However, stopping here makes the missing streets [streets not appear automatically on OSM. OSM-based maps](/questions/5440/why-arent-my-gps-traces-shown-on-the-maps). Every street has to be a added by a OSM volunteer mapper (someone like you and me) to be in the OSM database. The gps traces are used to position the streets. In many regions we have good aerial imagery available, so traces are not that important (but still useful!) there (currently). Also see: * ["Recording GPS tracks" in our docu wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks) and the other menu tabs there. Most importantly the "upload" tab. * [questions on this help site tagged with "gps"](/tags/gps/?sort=mostvoted) (sorted by votes) * ["Contribute map data" in our docu wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data) to get started contributing in general

Welcome, great that you want to help! Please see [im-new-how-can-i-start-to-help-want-to-insert-missing-streets-and-use-a-gps](/questions/19356/). the answers for [im-new-how-can-i-start-to-help-want-to-insert-missing-streets-and-use-a-gps](/questions/19356/) (the [first answer](/questions/19356/a/19364) seems to be most useful to me). You could stop after the step "upload to OSM". However, stopping here makes the missing streets not appear automatically on OSM. Every street has to be a added by a OSM volunteer mapper (someone like you and me) to be in the OSM database. The gps traces are used to position the streets. In many regions we have good aerial imagery available, so traces are not that important (but still useful!) there (currently). Also see: * ["Recording GPS tracks" in our docu wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks) and the other menu tabs there. Most importantly the "upload" tab. * [questions on this help site tagged with "gps"](/tags/gps/?sort=mostvoted) (sorted by votes) * ["Contribute map data" in our docu wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data) to get started contributing in general

Welcome, great that you want to help! Please see [im-new-how-can-i-start-to-help-want-to-insert-missing-streets-and-use-a-gps](/questions/19356/). You could stop after the step "upload to OSM". However, stopping here makes the missing streets not appear automatically on OSM. Every street has to be a added by a OSM volunteer mapper (someone like you and me) to be in the OSM database. The gps traces are used to position the streets. In many regions we have good aerial imagery available, so traces are not that important (but still useful!) there (currently). Also see: * ["Recording GPS tracks" in our docu wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks) and the other menu tabs there. Most importantly the "upload" tab. * [questions on this help site tagged with "gps"](/tags/gps/?sort=mostvoted) (sorted by votes) * ["Contribute map data" in our docu wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data) to get started contributing in general

Please see [im-new-how-can-i-start-to-help-want-to-insert-missing-streets-and-use-a-gps](/questions/19356/). You could stop after the step "upload to OSM". However, stopping here makes the missing streets not appear automatically on OSM. Every street has to be a added by a OSM volunteer mapper (someone like you and me) to be in the OSM database. The gps traces are used to position the streets. In many regions we have good aerial imagery available, so traces are not that important there (currently). Also see: * [Recording_GPS_tracks ["Recording GPS tracks" in our docu wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks) and the other menu tabs there. Most importantly the "upload" tab. * [questions on this help site tagged with "gps"](/tags/gps/?sort=mostvoted) (sorted by votes) * [Contribute_map_data](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data) ["Contribute map data" in our docu wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data) to get started contributing in general

Please see [im-new-how-can-i-start-to-help-want-to-insert-missing-streets-and-use-a-gps](/questions/19356/). You could stop after the step "upload to OSM". However, stopping here makes the missing streets not appear automatically on OSM. Every street has to be a added by a OSM volunteer mapper (someone like you and me) to be in the OSM database. The gps traces are used to position the streets. In many regions we have good aerial imagery available, so traces are not that important there (currently). Also see: * [Recording_GPS_tracks in our wiki](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks) and the other menu tabs there. Most importantly the "upload" tab. * [questions on this help site tagged with "gps"](/tags/gps/?sort=mostvoted) (sorted by votes) * [Contribute_map_data](//wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data) to get started contributing in general