The project's main "shop front" is www.openstreetmap.org. It's the first impression most people get of what OpenStreetMap does, and is designed to be easy to use, rather than show as much information as possible. In the following diagram, you can see the layout of the front page. We'll be referring to many of the features on the front page throughout the book, so let's have a look at what's there:
Most of the page is taken up by the map viewer, which is nicknamed the slippy map by mappers. This has its own controls, which we'll cover later in the chapter. Along the top of the map are the navigation tabs, showing most of the data management tools on openstreetmap.org. To the right of these are the user account links.
Down the left-hand side of the page is the sidebar, containing links to the wiki, news blog, merchandise page, and map key. The wiki is covered later in this and other chapters. The news blog is www.opengeodata.org, and it's an aggregation of many...