As we all are aware of that working in the open community will always give the feeling as working with family, where we can express our views , ideas and experiences. As an enthusiastic mapper, I just want to share my experience of working with OSM & JOSM. Though I have experience with mapping , but I’m green horn to this OSM. So I have started to learn everything about the OSM. Open street map is a user friendly website ,where we can contribute our mapping skills to map our home town or any place based on the knowledge of particular place. That is the basic environment, where the simple tools are designed to work and map the buildings, roads etc. These tools are more flexible in nature and bit interesting to work. There are also video tutorials and notes that helps us to get inhabit with the OSM. These tutorials helps us to understand basic techniques of mapping in the OSM. The mapping in OSM in an voluntary act where our mappings will helps some people around the world. It is directly used by the users. So every mapper should be careful while mapping. There should be no scope for errors. So I too mapped some area in my home town which is familiar to me through OSM. I am also attaching the work on my home town as well.As life is all about series of excitements, which you have to taste each and everything, I have come across the working on OSM with JOSM. Surely I can say that it’s best part of my learning career. After a long time I really felt challenging and exciting working with JOSM. It took nearly four days for understanding the each and every aspect in the software. Right from installation part to uploading process, I thoroughly enjoyed working the JOSM. It was software with great and user friendly interface. I had referred many sites and links for the working on JOSM. Gone through many videos for the procedure of mapping using JOSM. I was really fascinated by the filter option which is very interesting. Felt that there should be more snap shots and videos on the splitting process and also tagging. Really it was a great experience from working with JOSM. Its robust nature and shortcuts for many tools makes mapping more comfortable and interesting.

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