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This page lists all accounts (i.e. username/password combinations) that you may need to participate in different areas of OSM.
You do not need to enter the passwords often: Most websites offer (on login) to remember your session via a permanent cookie across browser restarts. Most "offline" OSM editors save the editing authorisation (not necessarily the password for security reasons) on your computer.
Contents
Quickstart
OpenStreetMap account
2.1
OpenStreetMap working data (nodes, ways, relations)
2.2
GPS tracks
2.3
Forum
2.4
Help question and answer site
2.5
Many other apps...
Mailing lists
Wiki (what you're currently reading)
SVN access (OSM software)
JOSM-SVN access
Why not just one account? - Single sign on
See also
Quickstart
If you want to edit maps,
create an OSM account
If you want to edit the wiki,
create a wiki account
OpenStreetMap account
Main article:
OpenStreetMap account
This is the main account used by the project,
create an OSM account
It can be used for:
OpenStreetMap working data (nodes, ways, relations)
no account required
for downloading the whole data from the
planet file
no account required
for read access to data through the API (used by most editors e.g.
JOSM
).
OSM account required
for write access to data through the API (used by most editors e.g.
JOSM
).
GPS tracks
no account required
for looking at tracks via
www.openstreetmap.org/traces
and downloading individual tracks in GPX format, or for downloading GPS points through the API.
OSM account required
for uploading tracks, and for accessing the "my tracks" list.
Forum
OSM account required
for posting replies or start a new discussion
no account required
to view the archives on the web
Help question and answer site
help.openstreetmap.org was shut down in March 2024.
To see an archive of this section, visit
Accounts/help.openstreetmap.org section archive
Many other apps...
OpenStreetMap provides an
OAuth
access and authentication mechanism which can be used by other applications on the web and elsewhere. When using one of these apps you'll be prompted to authorize with OpenStreetMap, and you'll be shown which permissions the app is requesting.
Mailing lists
registration required
for receiving emails, and sending (posting) to the lists. Registration
here
no account required
to view the archives on the web
Password given out by mailman but not really needed for anything.
For sending to the list, you will need to be registered with your 'from' email address.
If you send, your email addresses gets displayed publicly in the archives, but with some anti-scraping obfuscation.
Wiki (what you're currently reading)
no account required
for read access.
wiki account required
for creating or changing pages. Can be created
here
Your wiki account information will usually be saved in your browser so that you don't have to type it in every time (tick 'remember me for 1 year')
Email address is never displayed publicly in the wiki
Confirm your email address in order to receive user talk page notifications
SVN access (OSM software)
SVN moved to
and is now in archive mode.
JOSM-SVN access
The
JOSM
editor resides in an SVN repository of its own.
no account required
if you just want to submit an one-shot patch, simply put that in a
ticket
OSM account required
to change plugins
JOSM core account required
to edit JOSM core code, handed out by the current maintainer upon their discretion.
Why not just one account? - Single sign on
People have suggested and discussed the possibility of unifying all of these accounts and logins. This involves some development effort which hasn't happened yet. See
Develop/Single sign on
See also
OpenID
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