WikiProject Ethiopia

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Welcome to the OpenStreetMap Project Ethiopia!

As you may have guessed, this project is about mapping Ethiopia.

The original URL of this page is:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Ethiopia

If you like to spread this project, you also can use the short URL:

http://www.OS-MAP-ET.tk

Progress of this project

There are tiles supporting amharic names (Tag lang:am) - have a look at Bole Road in Addis (sorry, currently not working, but it worked before, will be fixed soon if there are some more Amharic names) at http://www.ethio-map.com/

Cities

Key:boundary#Admin_level_values_for_specific_countries Boundary tagging for Ethiopia

Announcement

Alex M. is working on an Amharic rendering, so, if possible, everybody is encouraged to add Amharic names (tag="name:am"). See Bole Road for an example. Also it is planed to render if streets have lights or not, for knowing were it is safe to go at night. So please use the Tag "lit=yes" if you know about the streets light status.

Tagging

Streetnames

  • name - Contains the Name as seen on the streetsign.
  • name:am - Contains the Amharic name as seen on the street sign
  • loc_name - (Optional) Contains the local name. For example in Addis Ababa, many roads have common names. Africa Ave is known by many people as "Bole Road". Many Roads are referenced to because of embassies or big companies which are located there: EU Road, Bole-Ruwanda, Tele-Bole Road

see also: Key:name see also: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php for other language codes

Status

Addis Ababa: Main Roads, many Names Missing - OSM Map Bugs in the Map

Bole Homes: Done


Sources

CNS

Import cities from CNS: WikiProject_Ethiopia/GNS Problem: Cities are not classified by size.

Worldgazetteer

Allowed ? I asked for permission --Alexm 07:40, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

gdata

The also have roads .. [1]

In mapcenter there is a Map in garmin format generated from this [2]

Addis Ababa subcities

On http://www.addisababacity.gov.et/ the shapes of subcities can be found. I will try to use this as a base for addis ababa. I tried to put the subcities sketch on openstreetmap - does somebody have information about the borders?? Is Ethio-Chinese-Road the North border to bole ?

http://self.mestrona.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/g3372.png

Tag Guidelines

  • What about minibuss-lines ?

Involved People

  • Alex M. - I am currentlysoon in Ethiopia and own GPS logging devices. If you are traveling unmapped roads and you are interested to help, I can borrow it to you. Please contact me via my user page. Please leave you cellphone number... GPS Logger
  • Flor - I have started to trace some of the main streets in Addis from Yahoo. I've only been in Addis for 2 months so I only remember some of the areas well. For these areas I intend to put as much detail in as I can. Apart from that I would like to improve some of the existing ways and make them more consistent (bridges, junctions, road classification etc). I'm not so good with names of things but at least I can add things and others could correct or add names.
  • Sandfuchs - I have more or less finalized Bole Rwanda area. Worked on the south-western and eastern part of the Ring Rd up to Maganagna Roundabout. Added many Street Names.

References

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