WikiProject Iran
Iran is a country located in Asia, Middle east.
This page contains information about mapping and tagging activities related to this country. Feel free to give opinions and discussions in discussion tab about things related to this page.
Current mapping state of Iran rendered in Mapnik
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
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Mapping conventions
The Iran tagging contains a summary of mapping conventions specific to iran. As much as possible, mapping and tagging should follow the conventions set by the OpenStreetMap community as a whole, such as indicated in pages like Map Features, Feature Index, and Editing Standards and Conventions.
NB: There's a known issue with street labels written in Farsi script that contain numbers. See here for an example. This is a known issue in the Mapnik renderer: Ticket #519. Please add the correct name to the database nevertheless. This will be fixed with Mapnik 0.8.0
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 :-)
Roads
Freeways - Tagging guidelines and coverage for آزادراها
Roads - Tagging guidelines and coverage for جادها
Cities
| City | OSM map |
Yahoo! imagery? |
Progress. what? who? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tehran | map | y! | good progress. |
| Mashhad | map | y! | excellent progress, almost done - Claudius Henrichs, Saeed Joolaee |
| Esfahan | map | y! | good progress. |
| Zahedan | map | excellent progress. - Saeed Joolaee | |
| Kerman | map | excellent progress. - Mos | |
| Tabriz | map | only main streets. | |
| Karaj | map | ||
| Shiraz | map | y! | good progress |
| Torbat-Heydarieh | map | at the beginning. Saeed Joolaee | |
| Birjand | map | at the beginning. Saeed Joolaee | |
| Gonabad | map | good progress. Saeed Joolaee | |
| Ferdows | map | good progress. Saeed Joolaee | |
| Zabol | map | Main streets. Claudius Henrichs, Saeed Joolaee | |
| Howaizeh | map | excellent progress. Saeed Joolaee | |
| Dezful | map | good progress. | |
| Yazd | map | Main streets. | |
| Quchan | map | excellent progress. Saeed Joolaee |
Other goals
- Bandar Abbas
- Boundaries with and roads to neighbouring countries
- Bordering city's names in different languages
- Farsi and English names for places
Boundaries
The country borders were imported from the CIA World Fact Book (WFB).
In September 2009 Claudius Henrichs imported the province and part of the county borders from MapLibrary.org (Link to Iran at MapLibrary.org). A new OSM-user was set up for this named iran_provinces. The manual import surfaced a large diagonal offset between ML and WFB data. To resolve this the country boundaries from WFB were kept untouched and connections to the province boundary data from ML were created manually.
See also the List of admin_level values for Iran.
Things that are done
- Cities
- Random parts of Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Kashan, Kerman, Kish, Naein, Shiraz 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
- Tehran-Semnan-Mashhad Road
- Other
- Lake Chadegan
- Lake Urmia
- Island of Hormuz
- Some main roads in Eastern/Western Azerbaijan
- I traced the island of Abu Musa, which had high detail yahoo imagery. I had to move the island a few miles to the west so the imagery may not be aligned properly. Osm@floris.nu
03/14/2009 - Roozbeh Gholizadeh Few inner roads in Aryashahr, Shahrak-e-Gharb and Kerman are added.
Participants
- Roozbeh Pournader
- Farzaneh Sarafraz
- Elnaz Sarbar
- Reza Mohammadi
- Shervin Afshar
- Hooman Mesgary
- Fran Boon
- Behnam Pournader
- Navid
- katpatuka
- arman
- Claudius Henrichs
- Saeed Joolaee
- Bahar
- Jalal Rohani
- Roozbeh Gholizadeh
Sources
- for names: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/jog/iran/; Perry-Castañeda Library
