[OSM-dev] How to get started with the contributions

[Andy Townsend]

On 12/08/2022 16:46, Harshvardhan Khimsuriya wrote:
> I am Harshvardhan Khimsuriya, a Computer Science undergrad, I have 
> just entered my third year at NIT Surat, India. I am new to the open 
> source contributions but I am well aware of  python, java, c++ and sql 
> . I would like to contribute to your organisation  but could you 
> please tell me how to get started?
>
Hello, and welcome to the dev mailing list!

I'd actually start by mapping things in your local area.  Go to 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and have a look at your local area.  Find 
something that's missing (perhaps a local shop or something), zoom in to 
where it is missing and click "edit". That'll prompt you to sign up and 
take you through a quick tutorial.  After you've made your change you 
will be able to see your contribution from your user profile and you can 
click through to see the things you added and the internal tags used.

What happens next is then up to you and what you are interested in - do 
you want to look at how maps and other renderers use OSM data, or 
routers?  Do you want to look at the editors that people use to add OSM 
data, or perhaps at data analysis (such as "how near is the average 
person from a shop")?

Much of the software behind OpenStreetMap is accessible via github, and 
quite a lot (though not all) is behind https://github.com/openstreetmap 
- for example the "standard" map layer at openstreetmap.org is at 
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto .

Best Regards,

Andy