WikiProject Nepal

Nepal, Asia

Latitude : 28.15, Longitude : 84.13

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Nepal is a country in Asia at latitude 28.15, longitude 84.13.

OpenStreetMap images (and underlying map data) are freely available under the OpenStreetMap License.

OSM would not be complete without Mt. Everest (and eight of the ten highest mountains of the world) mapped, so this page is all about adding to OSM in Nepal.

It would really be cool to start mapping trails that could be joined into new trekking routes. Trekkers pile up on a fraction of the potential routes. Mahabharat traverse anyone?

Contents 1 Mailing List 2 Roads 3 Treks 4 Downloads for Nepal 4.1 planet.osm extracts 4.2 Map Downloads for Garmin GPS devices 4.3 DEM Data for Nepal 5 People

Mailing List

Please see the Mailing List to discuss anything related to mapping in Nepal]

Roads

•  Mahendra Highway (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Treks

Route	Distance	Description	Route relation(s)	% Complete	Notes
Annapurna Circuit	250? km	Trek around the Annapurna Sanctuary	1187310 (x a r j h v)	route almost 100% complete (needs to be verified) guess many POI (guesthouses, facilities, drinking water) are still missing	Wikipedia: Annapurna Region
Annapurna Base Camp	? km	Trek to Annapurna Base Camp	not yet	footways almost 100% (needs to be verified), though not added to a relation yet guess many POI (guesthouses, facilities, drinking water) are still missing	Wikipedia: Annapurna Region
Everest Base Camp	? km	Trek to Everest Base Camp (EBC)	1189003 (x a r j h v)	route almost 100% complete (needs to be verified) guess many POI (guesthouses, facilities, drinking water) are still missing

Downloads for Nepal

planet.osm extracts

Cloudmade

• .osm XML extract as well as other useful files (.img files for Garmin, .poly for a rough shape of nepal, ...)
• should update monthly, but there were some disturbances in the last weeks. The current file available very likely only contains data from August (though it claims to be from September)

Temporary XML Extract (approx. 1,8MB, OSM data from 28.10.2010)

• because of the problems with the Cloudmade downloads I made this temporary solution
• based on an asia.osm extract from Geofabrik, polygon from Cloudmade, cut with Osmosis
• feel free to replace this with a more current file when it gets outdated, I can only update this sporadically

I used these parameters:

./osmosis --read-xml file="asia.osm" --bounding-polygon file="nepal.poly" --write-xml file="nepal.osm"

Map Downloads for Garmin GPS devices

• Cloudmade OSM error edition

• Topographic map (not available yet, thanks to Deutsche Telekom and poor upstream).

DEM Data for Nepal

SRTM NASA data has very large gaps in the Himalaya, if you want to render a topographic map for nepal (or other areas in the Himalaya) you are probably interested in more acurate DEM data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org. It's not perfect, but more useful than the SRTM data.

People

• Users:JoeRichards - trekking from Lukla to Everest Base Camp in November 09