Ok I registered an account at and I am determined map the hell out of this island.

@thinkMoult
Thank you!

The island of Malta, for the foreseeable future :)

@Antanicus Awesome! Welcome to #OpenStreetMap. Any questions, ask away. Good luck mapping it.It's a fun hobby. 🙂

@rory
I'm already hard at work, uploaded like 10 entries over the weekend :) out of curiosity, how long does it take for uploaded points of interest to be accepted and show on the map?

@Antanicus OSM is a wiki, there is no "accepting", your changes will be in the global OSM database as soon as you upload. 🙂 The map on openstreetmap.org is updated every few minutes, but your browser might cache the old image, so you might not see your changes straight away. So it should be visible within minutes on OSM.org. Other places using the OSM DB might take longer

@Antanicus *but* if you tagged it wrong, then it might not show on that OSM.org map. If you used presets in your editor, this is v unlikely. If you're worried about that, feel free to send me a link to the edits and I can double check it. 🙂

@rory I am using the Osmand app under LineageOS, I guess that will take a bit longer :)

@rory
Nothing on the map too... Guess I'm doing it wrong?

@Antanicus You said you're using #OSMAnd, and I think you need to manually upload the changes with that app. It's a little hard to find IMO. Did you do that?

@rory @Antanicus depending on the version of OSMAnd you are using, it may only provide updates once a month. You need OSMAnd live to get frequent updates.

Check on osm.org to see if your updates are there.

If you're mapping heavily I would check out JOSM on a computer or Vespucci on a phone too.

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