WikiProject Syria
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 Syria, Asia
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| Latitude : 34.615, Longitude : 37.965 |
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Syria is a Country in Asia at latitude 34.615, longitude 37.965.
Arab Republic of Syria is a country in Southwest Asia with arabic as official language
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Administrative regions in Syria
Governorate boundaries for Syria added from [maplibrary.org's] ESRI shape file. Southmost border Syria - Jordan corrected which seemed to be wrong.
Highway/Roads classification in Syria
Motorways in Syria
- Mashreq international roads (2001)
- M (highway=motorway) : The M1 and M3 are motorways and the M5 has a motorway section but the M4 is an ordinary road (highway=primary).
- M1 Halab (Aleppo) - Jordanian border.
Main roads in Syria
- Single digit road numbers (highway=primary) are used for main national roads.
- 1 coast road
- 2, 3 and 4 are east-west routes increasing to the north
- 5 north-south route increasing to the east. 5 is parallel to the M1 and some sections overlap.
- 6 and 7 are north-south routes increasing to the east (but 7 is diagonal and crosses 2 and 5 at Dimashq (Damascus).
Railways
Major cities in Syria
Mapping projects
- Homs
Mapping Homs is in progress... (see Syria/Homs_mapping_progress)
Residents of Homs are invited to set direction of roads.
Available imagery
- Bing high resolution imagery coverage
- In addition, an OrbView-3 satellite, 1 m resolution, panchromatic (black and white) image is available, covering an area south west of Homs. Use source=OrbView-3, GeoEye/USGS, 2005-02-27. This image was rectified using GPS tracks where available, and existing OSM data elsewhere (which was itself apparently traced from Bing).
- Use with Potlatch :
- For Potlatch 2, in menu "Background / Edit / Add", give a name (for example "Syria - OrbView-3"), and copy the following URL:
http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/syria_ov3/$z/$x/$y
- (you can also uncheck "Dim").
- For Potlatch 1, open "Options (choose background map)" dialog window, and copy-paste the following URL in "Custom":
http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/syria_ov3/!/!/!
- (you can also uncheck "Dim background").
- Use with JOSM :
- To make the image available in the Imagery menu in JOSM, go to Modify / Preferences / WMS - TMS tab / +, give a name (for example "Syria - OrbView-3"), and copy-paste the following URL in "Web address" (bottom):
tms:http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/syria_ov3/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg
- In addition, an EO-1 satellite, 10 m resolution, image is available, covering Homs, Rastan, and also northern part of Damascus. Use source=EO-1, NASA/USGS, 2005-02-28. Beware that this image seems to be shifted with respect to existing OSM data (by about 200 m to the East), and that this shift should likely be corrected before tracing.
- Use with Potlatch :
- For Potlatch 2, in menu "Background / Edit / Add", give a name (for example "Syria - EO-1"), and copy the following URL:
http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/syria/$z/$x/$y
- (you can also uncheck "Dim").
- For Potlatch 1, open "Options (choose background map)" dialog window, and copy-paste the following URL in "Custom":
http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/syria/!/!/!
- (you can also uncheck "Dim background").
- Use with JOSM :
- To make the image available in the Imagery menu in JOSM, go to Modify / Preferences / WMS - TMS tab / +, give a name (for example "Syria - EO-1"), and copy-paste the following URL in "Web address" (bottom):
tms:http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/syria/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg
External Map Links
- http://www.souria.com/ar/tt/tm.asp
- detailed map for each city with road names http://www.syriatourism.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=263
- Syria maps from the Perry Casteneda Library at University of Texas-Austin - mostly CIA or other US Government sources (public domain)
