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Hello and Welcome to MapRoulette.

MapRoulette is a micro-task platform for OpenStreetMap. MapRoulette.org gives you small Tasks you can complete in under a minute to improve OpenStreetMap. Anyone can create groups of tasks, called Challenges, that the community can complete together.

Besides the website maproulette.org, there is also a full API that you can use to integrate MapRoulette with your own tools.

On this wiki, you will find all the resources you need to use MapRoulette.org, create and manage Challenges, see statistics and interact with the MapRoulette API.

Topics below that are not links yet are not written yet :( Help is welcome! If you have suggestions for this documentation, or don't understand how something works, please email us at [email protected] or open a new issue.

Links marked with 📕 are OSM Diary entries.

Improving OSM with MapRoulette

Basics

• Setting your OSM Editor
• Setting your Map Base Layer
• Earning Points and the Leaderboard
• Your Dashboard
• Discovering Challenges
• About Quick Fix Challenges 📕

Advanced Topics

• Notifications and Email 📕
• Virtual Challenges
• Using Keyboard Shortcuts
• Using Layouts
• Using Mapillary Images 📕
• Solving Multiple Tasks Together

Creating and Managing Challenges on MapRoulette

• Creating a Challenge 📕
• Using Overpass queries to create Challenges 🚜
• Keeping your Challenges fresh
• Creating Cooperative Challenges
• 🆕 Using simple forms in your Task instructions
• Filtering the Task list by properties
• Setting external Task identifiers

Working as a Team

• Projects and Project Managers
• Virtual Projects
• Reviewing 📕
• Exporting Challenge Data
• Using MapRoulette Hashtags 📕

Interacting with the MapRoulette API

• Full API Documentation (Swagger)
• 🆕 Python interface
• 🆕 Java interface

Contributing to the Code

• Setting up the MapRoulette back end
• Setting up the MapRoulette front end