hello!

It would be nice if the outlines were a bit darker for the countries, but maybe it is easier when people add more layers...

I hope to use this site more- thanks for the free shares! great work!

Thanks for your quick and deep enough introduction!

steve,

Thanks for the video, new user from SE PA, USA. I own several GPS units and run roads and trails in this area which I hope to upload as soon as I figure everything out.

Best Regards,

Jim

Very usefull. Thanks

Good introduction. Can't wait to buy a GPS device! (I don't even have a smart phone).

Best,

Barbara Slavin

Framingham, MA

Very useful

Very nice overview - I truly hope we will be able to get involved in OSM in a big way in the future, especially with our mobility modelling research.

This is a great intro to OpenStreetMaps. I hope to be able to create map tiles of of cities to use in an application and look forward to learning as much as I can about OSM. Thanks for all the great work you and all the volunteers have contributed!

Great! just what I was looking for. Thank you!

Great project! Used OpenStreet maps for a recent grand motorcycle tour of Europe and western Asia. Just learning more about it now and will surely contribute. The videos are getting me oriented to how to proceed.

Thanks!

I found this video very useful. I have only just discovered Openstreetmap, and Opencyclemap. I am a retired IT professional, who likes to walk and geocache. I also spend a lot of time in Andalucia, where I have always had problems getting decent digital data for GPSs. So I'm seriously thinking of signing up!

An interesting quick intro but I need to do a lot more reading to get started.

Steve gives a quite good overview about OSM.

Nice swift presentation of the Open Street Map project and about the community.

Perhaps I expected some more detailed demonstration on how to add other info than GPS-info to the map. But I'll find that info in the wiki I guess. I have noted that it is easy to drag Points Of Interest to the chart but I guess I wanted to be able to add more/other info to the map as well.

Nice video for start using the map web page service you create. I am still learning...

Great intro I liked the informal nature

Hi, seeing and hearing your beginners video, its not easy to understand because of your fast pronunciation for other language users :-) But most are understood.

Best regasrds

Fred45

A friend told me that openstreetmap was perfect for a project that I am working on but I had no idea what it was. This video was an excellent introduction, thank you Steve.

Keep on doing the great work!

Nice introduction to OSM.

Thanks; interesting

good overview, as everyone has different purposes and understanding, focus will be different as well. As I have a fabel for geography and used a lot of paper maps until now, this is a gain. Thanks a lot Steve, Regards, Sebastian from Moscow on a hot summer Sunday

Quick and informative video, thanks.

Nicely done. Made me want to explore OSM more.

Great intorduction. I want to start adding maps!

that was some long info, great stuff :) thx

clear and thourough (hope not to ruin english, i'm no english native speaker)

New to this thing. foud openstreetmap through arstechnica.com . I liked it right away.

I'm more interested in using this system than all the features it has. Personally, I would carve off the discussion about the blogs, etc. into a separate video, and use the intro for actually producing something simple.

Lon

Thanks for the great intro! Love OpenStreetMap!

I really need a 'simple stupid overview' of what this is FOR... so you wear a gps thing on your head - and then over time a map is built up of the world?? is that it? how are rivers and forests defined? or does the map data come from somewhere else. A stupiider overview would be appreciated (3 min long...) - well done on the video thought, cheers...!