newbies -- Help for newbie mappers
About newbies	English (USA)
A mailing list for newbie mappers. If you're new to OSM, bring your mapping questions to this list, or to http://help.osm.org/ . It is explicitly not for general discussion, tag voting, license, coding questions and so on. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the newbies Archives.
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