Good afternoon from sunny, hot, and muggy northeast Florida!

I am still learning OSM, who is not, and having a blast doing it. It is increadibly fun and incredibly fascinating. Always see and find something new every single day! Love it!

Right now I decided to make the jump to JOSM. I know it is a little or a lot complicated. Best way to learn is jump and start going. When I downloaded it the current version, 19423, was not active I down loaded a earlier version and needed to update. I was literally looking at help files, Googling it, asking questions, a lot. But, and don’t ask me how, I eventually landed the current version, 19423, on my computer. It was one of those moments that you have no clue how you did something but who cares its finally done.

To get started I did the LearnOSM again. I sometimes have to do it over and over to get the idea. Its a good refresher as well. For someone like me who has multiple challenges the fact OSM allows for going back and being able to go over is really good. I saw some updates that and changes that need to be done based on the new JOSM version. I need to figure out who to send those to. Now I am on working on the LearnOSM JOSM - Detailed Editing. Thank you also for OSM having the ability to work on a mock community. That is tremendous and helps so so much.

I do wish that some of the tutorials were more accessible for people with challenges. I think that will allow for a entirely new population of folks to get mapping. We that are disabled and something like OSM for a lot of us is a pair made for each other. Its quiet and you can do it any place and in any environment. It really is a awesome combination. I have a lot of suggestions to make this happen. Need to find out whom to talk to about this as well.

Here are a few….

• Try to make things more accessible. Example being having some parts being in video format or being in audio so people can hear the directions and see them.
• Another suggestion is make the entire OSM website is ADA compliant. Right now I am almost 100% sure a lot of the openstreetmap.org is not ADA compliant.
• This is a quick look at the OSM website through a very good and helpful website accessibility tracker. Accessibility Tracker Results for openstreetmap.org
• The ability to write these New Diary Entries with out Markdowns and easier to write and share.

That is four and I have others and I am more then happy to help and get involved as much or as little as possible. Please OSM reach out if you are interested!

I would love to here what others have to say and what you all think. Shoot me a DM, comment, pass along to leardership, etc. But, I would love to see what others think about all this.

Talk soon!

Jason