Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in Africa at latitude 21°00′00.00″ North, longitude 11°36′00.00″ West.

Community

• OSM.Mauritanie

Things you can do

There's a lot that you can do to help improve the map!

• Add the missing residential roads outside Nouakchott using Bing imagery
• Many missing roads in Nouabidhou, most other towns and outskirts elsewhere
• Whole blocks in residential areas of Nouakchott are drawn as buildings incorrectly.

Find and fix errors

• Quality control with Osmose

Names

Key	Element	Comment
name=*		The common default name. Notes: For disputed areas, please use the name as displayed on, e.g., street signs for the name tag Put all alternatives into either localized name tags (e.g., name:tr/name:el) or the variants (e.g., loc_name/old_name/alt_name) Do not abbreviate words: abbreviations For details refer to Names#Good_practice.
name[:✕✕]=*		Name in different language; e.g., name:fr=Londres. Note that all key variants below can use a language suffix. See: Multilingual names.
name:left=*, name:right=*		Used when a way has different names for different sides (e.g., a street that's forming the boundary between two municipalities).
int_name=*		International name. Consider using language specific names instead; e.g., name:en=.... International does not (necessarily) mean English. It is used to give the name transliterated to Latin script in Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Kazakhstan and North Macedonia
loc_name=*		Local name.
nat_name=*		National name.
official_name=*		Official name. Useful where there is some elaborate official name, while a different one is a common name typically used. Example: official_name=Principat d'Andorra (where "name" is name=Andorra).
old_name=*		Historical/old name, still in some use.
ref_name=*		Unique, human-readable name of this object in an external data management system.
reg_name=*		Regional name.
short_name=*		Should be a recognizable commonly-used short version of the name, not an altogether different name (use alt_name for that), useful for searching (recognized by Nominatim).
full_name=*
sorting_name=*		Name, used for correct sorting of names — This is only needed when sorting names cannot be based only on their orthography (using the Unicode Collation Algorithm with collation tables tailored by language and script, or when sorted lists of names are including names written in multiple languages and/or scripts) but requires ignoring some parts such as: ignoring leading articles, or lowering the relative importance of first names cited before a last name, ignoring the generic part of a street name when it occurs before the specific name (e.g., in French with "rue", "boulevard", "place", etc.), all of them being ignored at the primary sort level and not easily inferable by a preprocessing algorithm.
alt_name=*		Alternative name by which the feature is known. If there is a name that does not fit in any of the above keys, alt_name can be used; e.g., name=Field Fare Road and alt_name=Fieldfare Road, or name=University Centre and alt_name=Grad Pad. In rare cases, the key is used for multiple semicolon-separated names; e.g. alt_name=name1;name2;name3, but this usage is not preferred.
nickname=*		Nickname (e.g. "Warschauer Allee" for BAB 2 in Germany 3140168 3140168).
proposed:name=*		Proposed / future name for an element.
name_1=*, name_2=*, …		Do not use this tag, suffixed name tagging for multiple values is deprecated.
bridge:name=*		Used to specify the name of a bridge where key:name is already used for the road on the bridge.
tunnel:name=*		Used to specify the name of a tunnel where key:name is already used for the road through the tunnel.

This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.

Public Transport

Link to an analysis and overview of public transport routes mapped on Mauritania.