WikiProject Israel

This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to Israel. Any guides or conventions on this page should be discussed in the forum, feel free to comment or help (mapping your area, tagging streets or correcting this page).

Contents 1 Forum 2 Talk-il Mailing list 3 Heads Up 4 Conventions 5 Places 6 Municipalities 7 Hiking & Biking trails 7.1 Main conventions 7.2 Additional conventions 7.3 Table of Main Trails 7.4 See also 7.5 Tel Aviv Bicycle Rentals 8 Forests 9 Trains 10 Goals 10.1 Goal: Netanya 10.2 Goal: Beer Sheva 10.3 Goal: Rishon LeZion 10.4 Goal: Naariya and Hadera 11 OpenStreetBugs 12 Maps 12.1 Cities 12.2 Separation Wall 13 People involved 14 See also

Forum

Israel users forum. Unfortunately English only. This is preferred over the talk-il mailing list. Sign in with your OpenStreetMap DB account.

Talk-il Mailing list

Talk-il mailing list is for discussion about mapping Israel, and for easy communication between mappers from Israel. Preferred language is Hebrew. Other languages are also allowed.

Talk-il רשימת תפוצה לנושאים הקשורים למיפוי ישראל, לתקשורת בין משתמשים ישראלים ולסתם פטפוטים. יש נסיון מהוסס לעודד תקשורת בשפה העברית, אבל בפועל ההודעות הן בעיקר באנגלית. בין השאר, בגלל שאחוזים גבוהים מהחברים ברשימה לא דוברים עברית...

Heads Up

This is to give a heads up notice, I'm working on converting, polishing and uploading all locations based on the GEOnet Names Server. This is a fairly complete if not exactly accurate data. It does give a full list with English transliterated names of all towns/villages as well as mountain peaks and various other features.

This will create some duplication for places that already exist in OSM but will flesh out place names in our little country. Exact location and merging with existing places can happen later.

If you have objections or ideas it would make sense to raise it now. Contact me through the wiki or OSM at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Baruch

--BaruchEven

Upload done!

I started initially to hand check each node and translate it to Hebrew but it was going to take too long. Instead I'm uploading all the data in its raw form and everyone can update the nodes, translate them and place them in their proper location. If you move a node to a place you think is the correct one (you can use the WMS maps for this) remove the accuracy=minutes tag.

--BaruchEven

Conventions

• Naming
  • The "name" tag should be used as the primary name, in the language most common in the area. The "name" tag should contain the name in only one language. Use other "name:*" for other languages.
  • Use tag "name:he=..." for adding street names in Hebrew.
  • Use "name:en" for the English name (prefer the exact spelling as it is on the street sign!)
  • Use "name:ar" for the Arabic name
  • Use "name:ru" for the Russian name
  • Use "name:am" for the Amharic name
  • Add the full name written on the sign, don't include "rehov" or "street"
  • Do not use shortcuts, let the renderers do this.
  • The map can be viewable in various languages using OpenStreetMap on the Wikimedia Toolservers

Specifically, English, Arabic, Russian, Amharic

• Roads - General Guidelines
  • Single digit roads are either Motorway or Trunk, Road 2 is a Motorway while Road 4 is a Trunk.
  • Double digit roads are Primary
  • Triple digit roads are Secondary
  • Quadruple digit roads are Tertiary
  • Main roads inside of the city are Tertiary

• Roads - Specific Guidelines
  • motorway: highway, blue signs. e.g. Road 20 (Ayalon), Road 5 between Glilot and Kesem, road 1 between Tel Aviv and Shaar HaGai, etc.
  • trunk: Main roads, green signs. e.g. Road 1 between Shaar HaGai and Jerusalem, Road 4 north of Holon. Usually 1-digit ref numbers.
  • primary: Main roads, usually 2-digits ref numbers.
  • secondary: usually 3-digits ref numbers.
  • tertiary: usually 4-digits ref numbers. Also: main roads in residential areas, and roads leading to villages.
  • unclassified: Smaller paved roads in non-residential places. e.g. agricultural roads, forest roads, roads from behind one village to behind another village, etc.
  • residential: Roads in residential places (city, town, village, etc.)
  • service: Roads in parking lots, fuel stations, inside universities, inside factories, etc.
  • track: unpaved Double.
  • path: unpaved Single.
  • footway: where people walk between roads in residential areas (like "path" outside of residential areas)
  • pedestrian: where people walk and there are many shops. Like "Midrahov", or "Passage", etc.
  • living_street: "Rehov Holandi"
  • road: Temporary tagging, if the type is unknown. try to add a "note" tag.

Please see He:Map Features, and this forum thread

Places

A place shuld have a node and a polygon.

The node tells the renderer where to draw the name of the place. It also should have all the tags related to the place, like population, wikipedia, etc. It should have all the various names with different spelling, e.g. name, name:en, name* and name:* tags.

The polygon should only have the following tags:

• landuse=residential
• place=*
• place_name=
• place_name:*=

All the other tags belong to the node.

Here is a list of all places in Israel in Hebrew and English.

Municipalities

Thanks to the MOIN Import We are able to map townhalls, local municipalities, and regional municipalities.

A municipality should have a relation with one node with role admin_centre, and one or more ways, to form closed polygon(s).

The relation should have the following tags:

• type=boundary
• boundary=administrative
• admin_level=8
• name=
• name:*=

The nodeadmin_centre node should be a place node, or an amenity=townhall node in the case of a regional council.

The ways that comprise the polygon that are sourced from the MOIN import should have the following tags:

• admin_level=8
• boundary=administrative
• date=08/2010
• source=MOIN

Here is a list of all municipalities in Israel in Hebrew and English.

Hiking & Biking trails

For some general info see Walking_Routes and Cycle_routes. Specific information about Israel can be found on Wikipedia and here (both in Hebrew).

Main conventions

Every marked trail should be represented by a relation and tagged according to the guidelines below.

Key	Value	Explanation
type	route	Indicates that this Relation represents a route. Mandatory.
route	hiking/bicycle	Mandatory.
name	a name	The route is known by this name (e.g. "Shvil Israel", "Golan Trail"). The name should be preferably specified in Hebrew. Optional.
name:en	a name	The English translation of the route name. Optional, but mandatory if "name" is in Hebrew.
name:he	a name	In general will be identical to the name attribute above. Optional.
ref	a reference	The route number as specified by the Israel Trail Committee. Optional.
network	nwn/rwn/lwn/ncn/rcn/lcn	Level of the network. Stands for National Walking Network / Local Walking Network / National Cycling Network / Local Cycling Network. Mandatory. nwn - INT only rwn - Special named (Golan, Jesus, Emek Ha'Ma'ayanot, Sovev Kineret, Jerusalem) and the unnamed long "regional" routes (purple) lwn - All the rest ncn - (The future) Israel Bike Route only rcn - TLV-JM, "Sovev Kineret" for bicycles lcn - All the rest (e.g. Ness Ziona Scenic, Canada Park Black)
operator	itc/kkl/rtg	The authority that maintains the route. Mandatory. itc - Israel Trail Committee (הועדה לסימון שבילים). Most of the hiking trails are of this type. kkl - Keren Kayemet LeIsrael. rtg - Rashut HaTeva VeHaGanim.
itc:type	long/regional/standard/urban	The type of the ITC trail. Optional. standard - the majority of the routes will have this designation. It can also be omitted and is understood to be the default. These are usually marked by either red, black, green, blue or white (the "single-color routes"). long - these include the following named long routes: Shvil Israel, Golan Trail, Jesus Trail, Emek Ha'Ma'ayanot trail and Jerusalem Trail. regional - usually unnamed long routes, marked by purple on the ground. Here we include also the Shvil Sovev Kineret. urban - TBD
kkl:type	TBD
osmc:symbol	The shield of the route, used for rendering.	Machine readable value for the route's colors and how the marking (shield) should look like. For the single-colored routes, the value should follow this example: red:white:red_stripe, which means: red colored way, white background shield, and a red vertical stripe on the shield's foreground. In particular, the foreground color should be equal to the trail color ("red" in the above example). The shield background color should almost always be "white". A transparent shield would be osmc:symbol=black:white. 3 colored markings, like Israel Trail and Golan Trail, should follow this example: blue:white:blue_stripe:orange_stripe_left, which means: blue colored way, white background shield, a blue vertical stripe on the shield's foreground, and another orange vertical stripe on the left of the shield. List of "right" symbols.

Additional conventions

• Ways belonging to the "single-color routes" (i.e. with itc:type=standard) should also have the colour=* tag.

Table of Main Trails

Trail	Relation	Marking	Description
Israel National Trail	282071 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Israel National Trail: Carmel Bypass	1312377 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )		Following the Carmel Fire of 2010, this is the alternative route for Israel National Trail
Golan Trail	568661 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Jesus Trail	364191 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Jerusalem Trail	1314299 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
TLV JM Bike Route	947776 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Shvil Sovev Kineret	1287591 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

List of all trails

See also

The original discussions can be seen here and also here.

Tel Aviv Bicycle Rentals

Tel Aviv Bicycle Rentals

Forests

KKL donated shape files for its managed forests.

Discussion in forum

List of Forests in Israel

Trains

Discussion in forum

List of Trains in Israel

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.
• Tag major intercity roads all around Israel.
• Create a really free alternative for http://www.freemap.co.il which has a huge map database but map data is not given for free. The community is being abused to build the data but data is downloadable only in a binary format.

Goal: Netanya

I think that 75 % of the Netanya streets are done already. Several streets are without names. If there is anybody to look on over the street names it would bring us to the next level in this city.

Talba: I'm slowly adding streets and roads of Netanya. We'll see how far I get...

Baruch Even: I'm also living in Netanya and added mostly the Kiryat Ha'Sharon area, not having a GPS yet I'm doing a rough sketch. A loan for a GPS device would be appreciated until I'll get the Neo Freerunner.

mr_Israel: Also living in Netanya and added several tracks and areas to it. All my GPS tracks are public and if there are parts that need to be added, please point me to that area and I will add it. I'm not adding any street names, because my keyboards are NON - Hebrew.

Goal: Beer Sheva

Yuri Magrisso: I've accumulated a large number of tracks in Beer Sheva. I am planning to map it in the coming months. I am taking photos of the name signs of most streets, but if someone lives in Beer Sheva, he's welcome to check for what's missing and fill it up.

Yrtimid 21:01, 18 November 2010 (UTC): Beer-Sheva needs at least tracks for:

• "Nahal Ashan" (already in progress)
• "Emek Sarah"
• "Neot Lon"
• "Neot Ilan"
• "Nahal Beka"

Goal: Rishon LeZion

Elihadad: I started working on Rishon LeZion area. I believe that it will take me a year to cover all Rishon, since I don't have too much time.

Goal: Naariya and Hadera

mr_Israel: I have uploaded a lot of tracks for Naariya and Hadera and mapped them after it. The streets are without street names. If somebody could add street names to those cities it would be great.

monya: I'm adding Russian "name:ru" tags to Hadera's street names.

OpenStreetBugs

You can easily mark incorrect points at OpenStreetBugs. By default the site displays the mapnik layer. Therefore, you should change (each time) to the Tiles@Home layer before anything else. Use the green "+" button, to add a new note. Every reported but will be taken care of.

Netanya

Raanana

Maps

Cities

• Jerusalem [map]
• Netanya [map]
• Tel-Aviv [map]
• Raanana [map]
• Haifa [map]
• Or-Yehuda [map]
• Quiryat Ono [map]
• Hadera (חדרה) [map]

Separation Wall

 1410327 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

People involved

• Arie Skliarouk
• Edoardo Marascalchi
• Talba
• Baruch Even
• mr_Israel
• Elihadad
• Yuri Magrisso
• HaKetem
• Ophir Oren
• Monya
• dimka

See also

• WikiProject Palestine