Morocco

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Morocco, Africa

latitude: 28.337, longitude: -9.400

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Morocco is a country in Africa at latitude 28°20′13.20″ North, longitude 9°24′00.00″ West.

	Morocco Mapping Project, the home of Morocco on the OpenStreetMap wiki.
	Hello! Welcome to the project for mapping efforts in Morocco! You can find here national events, ongoing projects, map status and mapping guidelines, as well as links to other pages directly related to the mapping of Morocco. You may also find a list of contacts and mappers involved with the OpenStreetMap community in Morocco.

This page is to coordinate mapping in Morocco (North West Africa).

The official languages are Arabic and Tamazight (ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ). French is used for administrative purposes.

Morocco rendered with Mapnik date:3.3.2007

Rabat rendered with Osmarender date:3.3.2007

Rabat 23.02.2014

Contact

The easiest way to communicate with other members of the OSM community near you is by sending a message to any active mappers by checking the edit history of an area

OpenStreetMap Morocco email list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ma

~~OSM Maroc website (www.openstreetmap.ma)~~

Twitter: @OsmMaroc

Public Transport

This page is for collaborating the mapping of public transport routes (Buse,train,etc.) in Major Cities of Morocco

Public Transport

Administrative divisions

Country (`admin_level=2`)	`admin_level=*`
Country (`admin_level=2`)	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Morocco (See: [[1]])	N/A	Regions (Wilayah) (جهات المغرب)(ولاية)	Provinces (الأقاليم) Prefectures (العمالات)	(Districts) Cercles (الدائرة) Pashalik (باشوية) Préfectures d'Arrondissements (عمالات المقاطعات)	Caïdats (القيادة) Arrondissements (المقاطعات)	Urban Municipalities (الجماعات الحضرية) Rural Communes (الجماعات القرويةا)	N/A	quartiers

Roads


 Roadways - classified roadways in Morocco

Guidelines

How tagging the routes/ways?

In Morocco we have 5 classified routes:

A - highway=motorway (Autoroute toll blue color)
RN - highway=primary (National Routes (kilometre posts:red color))
RR - highway=secondary ( Regional Routes(kilometre posts:yellow color))
RP - highway=tertiary ( Provincial Routes(kilometre posts:lightblue color))
by name - highway=residential (streets in cities,towns,villages)

Outside this classification:

top end - highway=trunk several express routes (2x2 routes) have such an important role in their area that we recognize them as highway=trunk routes. These routes can be national, regional or provincial route and have no different official reference.
low end - highway=unclassified minor routes that have not been classified, they have no reference and provide connections between minor dwellings. most are unpaved, some barely recognizable. in the dry season you can use them with a sedan or by bike.
agricultural - highway=track roads which provide access to agricultural land, conservation areas, forestry for wood and pulp production. They do not provide other service.
In the cities - highway=service especially in old medinas: challengingly narrow streets where vehicles are officially allowed. They are tagged mostly as service routes. This should not be abused, because we could end up tagging for the renderer, but access roads that lead nowhere except to properties, these are quite correctly tagged as highway=service, and that's generally how roads in medinas work: they lead to properties and there's no way back other than the way in.

Roads	Comments
`highway=motorway`	A(Autoroute) routes tag as highway=motorway
`highway=trunk`	N or R routes with 4 lanes or divided or important tag as highway=trunk
`highway=primary`	RN(National) routes tag as highway=primary
`highway=secondary`	RR(Regional) routes tag as highway=secondary
`highway=tertiary`	RP(Provincial) routes tag as highway=tertiary
`highway=unclassified`	others small roads as highway=unclassified
`highway=track`	others small roads as highway=track (note that it conflicts with how `highway=track` is defined)
`highway=residential`	Roads with no reference in cities and villages tag as highway=residential
reference:	https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highways

Country	motorway	trunk	primary	secondary	tertiary	unclassified
Morocco	Autoroute (A) Divided, toll roads highway with 2 or more lanes in each direction. has speed limits of 120 km/h.	Voie express,ringroads.Can be a single or a dual carriageway. speed limit varies from 40 to 100 km/h.	Nationale (N) linking cities	Regionale (R) secondary	Provinciale(P) tertiary	Small routes paved or not Minor roads

Mapping names

The preferred order for names is French - Tamazight - Arabic.

See Multilingual_names#Morocco

How tagging the places?

List of_municipalities, communes and arrondissement

Settlement	Description	Comments
`place=city`	A municipality having a population of at least 100,000 people and larger than nearby towns.	Like Rabat, Casablanca, Tanger...
`place=suburb`	A dependent municipality within a city, or an independent municipality next to a much bigger city.
`place=town`	A municipality having a population of at least 10,000 people and good range of local facilities including schools, medical facilities etc and traditionally a market.	Like Skhirat, Tamesna, Sidi Kacem...
`place=village`	A municipality having a population less then 10,000 people, larger than an hamlet, and with a significant infrastructure.	Rural or urban Comunne
`place=quarter`	A populated urban part of a suburb, town, or village, larger than a neighbourhood.	Not a municipality.
`place=neighbourhood`	A populated urban part of a suburb, town, quarter, or village.	Not a municipality.
`place=hamlet`	A rural community less than 100-200 inhabitants, few infrastructure except a public access road or path.	Not a municipality. Mostly douars.
`place=isolated_dwelling`	A rural named place with a single inhabited building or farm, almost no infrastructure except a nearby road or a private access path.	Not a municipality.
`place=locality`	Other small named place without clearly defined borders and an unspecified number of buildings around.	Not a municipality. Only nodes, for example, a crossroad with a locally known name, or a former hamlet, or just some facilities (possibly disused).
	Reference: Key:place

Links

Street view using OSM carte

Street view for few cities in Morocco using openstreetmap: http://carte.ma/

They confirmed the imagery can be used for OpenStreetMap.[2]

Quality control

Quality control with Osmose

Data

Morocco Open Data Site

Here you can find all information about post offices,postcode,embassies,etc in Morocco

https://data.gov.ma/fr

Roads

http://www.equipement.gov.ma/Infrastructures-Routieres/Reseau-Routier-du-Royaume/Pages/Cartes-routieres.aspx : existing roads, from the Ministère de l’Equipement et du Transport.
Note:although the road maps are recent, the road numbers are still not up to date

see:https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Morocco/Roads#Primary_ways

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Morocco/Roads#Secondary_ways_(Regional_Roads)

Tracks

http://rockburger.com/openstreetmap/morocco/ (last update 2011)

Kaart groundwork

Kaart conducts ground surveys for improvements to OSM data. A list of editors can be found on Kaart wiki page.

Mapillary imagery can be viewed here.
OpenStreetCam Map can be viewed here.

Tangier Province (April 2018)

Ground Focus - Visual Collection of Street Names, Verification of Oneway Streets in Tanger, Gueznaia, Tétouan, Martil, M'Diq, Chefchaouen
Issues - Many streets were unnavigable due to size of road (walkway/residential), Missing geometry
Post Processing - Street Name Consistency, Turn Restrictions, Turning Lanes, Pedestrian Crossings, Surface Types and Lanes, Additional Geometry

Community Editing Suggestions - Medina geometry improvements, footpaths should be determined for length and continuity.

Casablanca (April 2018)

Casablanca GPS Tracks by Kaart date:4.17.2018

Ground Focus - Visual Collection of Street Names, Verification of Oneway Streets in Metro Casablanca, El Jadida, Mohammadia
Issues - Many streets were unnavigable due to size of road (walkway/residential), Missing geometry, Missing/Removed roundabouts
Post Processing - Street Name Consistency, Turn Restrictions, Turning Lanes, Pedestrian Crossings, Surface Types and Lanes

Community Editing Suggestions - Medina geometry improvements

Marrakesh (April 2018)

Marrakesh GPS Tracks by Kaart date:4.17.2018

Ground Focus - Visual Collection of Street Names, Verification of Oneway Streets in Marrakesh, Agadir, Barrachid, Settat
Issues - Many streets were unnavigable due to size of road (walkway/residential), Missing geometry, Missing/Removed roundabouts
Post Processing - Street Name Consistency, Turn Restrictions, Turning Lanes, Pedestrian Crossings, Surface Types and Lanes

Community Editing Suggestions - Medina geometry improvements

Oujda (May 2018)

Oujda City GPS Tracks by Kaart date:5.13.2018

Ground Focus - Visual Collection of Street Names, Verification of Oneway Streets in Oujda, Saïdia, Berkane, Nador, Imzouren, Al Hoceima
Issues - Many streets were unnavigable due to size of road (walkway/residential), Missing geometry, Missing/Removed roundabouts
Post Processing - Street Name Consistency, Turn Restrictions, Turning Lanes, Pedestrian Crossings, Surface Types and Lanes

Community Editing Suggestions - Medina geometry improvements, adding missing street names

People involved

Martin: I would like to get some agreement on how to tag the main roads. Please see the discussion page. --23 October 2009
Alilo I have extra GPSs 1 USB GPS, 2x PDA GPS, 1x Bluetooth GPS, If you are in Morocco and do not have a GPS contact me I might lend one.

Hello Alilo,

I'm standing the up to the second week in June in Agadir (for 10 days). Can you contact me!

--Helmut K 06:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

nickb: I am interested in organizing mapping parties in Marrakech – if anyone in Morocco would like to be involved, please contact me.
memch: I implemented a background-tileserver for out-of-copyright maps of Morocco. Just visit here, select useful background, zoom to your area and click once to open potlatch here. See my page memch for details. Feel free to contact me here.
SN74LS00: My focus is mainly on extreme South of Morocco and Western Sahara.
Sinplomo: I've been doing some work mapping Tetouan (north of Morocco). Contact me if you are interested in helping with Tetouan. I could help with motorways, primary and secondary ways, ask me !
Johnparis: I mostly work on Oujda and Oriental, but I also use Osmose for quality control, so we have zero Level 1 or 2 errors.
TomTom company is driving the MapRoulette challenge "Morocco - Data Improvements"

Morocco

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Contact

Public Transport

Administrative divisions

Roads