OPEN STREET MAPPING

Open Street Map is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. Open Street Map allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Open Street Map has been praised for being more detailed than maps compiled by big companies like Google and Microsoft,yahoo and its creators hope that with thousands of editors, it will be more accurate.

GPS (Global Positioning System)

This is a GPS device that is used to make a Map.The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S. space-based radio navigation system that provides reliable positioning, navigation, and timing services to civilian users on a continuous worldwide basis -- freely available to all. For anyone with a GPS receiver, the system will provide location and time. GPS provides accurate location and time information for an unlimited number of people in all weather, day and night, anywhere in the world.

JOSM (Java Open Street Map Editor)

JOSM is the “Java OpenStreetMap Editor”, a desktop application originally developed by Immanuel Scholz and currently maintained by Dirk Stöcker. JOSM is an editor for OpenStreetMap written in Java 1.5. The current version supports stand alone GPX tracks, GPX track data from the OSM database and existing nodes, line segments and metadata tags from the OSM database.You can download JOSM from there

Steps to Make a Map

1:Mark the points with GPS device
2:Upload the Map
3:Edit a Map (JOSM)
4:Use the Map

Difference Between Google,Yahoo and Open Street Map

I made a Map of Dugri Phase-1 just in 3 hours.It was very interesting experience.There is a Lot of Difference Between My Map and Yahoo and Google Map of Dugri Phase-1.You Can find the Difference Between the Map of yahoo,Google and Open Street here.