WikiProject Iran

From OpenStreetMap

See Iran tagging for the guidelines about tagging maps in Iran.

Mapping Iran is still in the progress of taking off. The present map:

• Mapnik rendering: more beautiful but about a week old
• tiles@home rendering: more up-to-date, less beautiful

Contents 1 Things that are done 2 Goals 2.1 Iran 3 Participants 4 Sources

Things that are done

Cities

• Random parts of Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Kashan, Kish, Naein, and Yazd. Mashhad and Tehran have much more detail than the others.
• Center points for random cities, towns, and villages (many of them contributed by Ali Parsa)

Intra-city Roads

• Tehran-Qom-Kashan-Isfahan Highway
• Tehran-Karaj Highway
• Kashan-Ardestan-Naein-Ardakan-Yazd Road
• Ardakan-Chak Chak Road

Other

• Lake Chadegan
• Lake Urmia
• Island of Hormuz
• Some main roads in Eastern/Western Azerbaijan

Goals

If you have a goal that you are working towards or one that you would like to see get done (and are maybe willing to get the ball rolling) then add it to the list here, create a section where it can be coordinated and tracked, and a way of measuring progress. And then get on with it :-)

• Tehran - Map the city of Tehran
• Mashhad - Map the city of Mashhad
• Karaj - Map the city of Karaj
• Boundaries with and roads to neighbouring countries
• Bordering city's names in different languages
• Farsi and English names for places

Iran

• Mashhad
• Shiraz
• Tehran

Participants

• Roozbeh Pournader
• Farzaneh Sarafraz
• Elnaz Sarbar
• Reza Mohammadi
• Shervin Afshar
• Hooman Mesgary
• Fran Boon
• Behnam Pournader
• Navid
• katpatuka
• arman
• Claudius Henrichs

Sources

• for names: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/jog/iran/; Perry-Castañeda Library