WikiProject Nepal
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latitude: 27.6, longitude: 85.2 |
Browse map of Nepal 27°36′00.00″ N, 85°12′00.00″ E |
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Nepal is a country in Asia at latitude 27°36′00.00″ North, longitude 85°12′00.00″ East.
Project area
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Regions
Zone | Headquarters | Relation |
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Eastern Development Region | Dhankuta | 4583291![]() |
Central Development Region | Hetauda | 4583292![]() |
Western Development Region | Pokhara | 4583290![]() |
Mid-Western Development Region | Birendranagar | 4583375![]() |
Far-Western Development Region | Dipayal Silgadhi | 4583376![]() |
Please note that according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Nepal these 5 Development Regions were replaced by 7 provinces back in september 2015.
See here : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal/Boundaries
Some things you can do
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.
There are missing roads around Butwal and Biratnagar.
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?
We have maps for 2015 Nepal earthquake
Mailing List

To stay updated with all information and updates about the works being done, the progress being made while mapping, future plans, please join the mailing list:
Mailing List to discuss anything related to mapping in Nepal
- OSMNEPAL for general activities and information on OSMNEPAL.
- OSMNEPAL KU for activities done by Kathmandu University as moderator of OSM Community.
Works Regarding OSM in Nepal
- OSM Nepal is a community of active mappers who are voluntarily contributing to the OpenStreetMap (OSM) of Nepal. (dead link)
- Kathmandu Living Labs (kathmandulivinglabs.org) - A project mapping the Kathmandu valley
- Monsoon Collective is a group of individuals who want to work together to create objects and projects (often involving open data)during the Monsoon season every year in Kathmandu. (dead link)
- GalliGalli is an initiative to use technology to gather, package, and share information that impacts our relationships with our streets, our communities, and our government’s services. (dead link)
- Open Cities Kathmandu is a project by the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Risk and Recovery (GFDRR) which included the founding of Kathmandu Living Labs. (dead link)
- Local Trail and Infrastructure Mapping Project in Humla District of Nepal implemented by NAXA and supported by WFP Nepal and DFAT.
Mapathons
- Mapping Forests of Nepal : organized on World environment day 2020. (dead link)
Meetings
Cities in Nepal
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Mapping Nepal
- Please see Nepal/Common tags for list of common tags applicable to Nepal and other Nepal specific tags.
- Please see Nepal/Roads for proposed road standards / conventions or guidelines for road categorization.
- Please see Nepal/Mapping Party Guidelines for proposed road standards / conventions or guidelines for road categorization.
- Please see Tagging Guidelines for OSM Nepal
- Please see Nepal remote mapping guide for help with identifying features in Nepal's aerial imagery
- Please see Project_Ilam for an mapped reference area of agriculture, forest and other natural landuses.
Relations
- Mahendra Highway
Mahendra Highway
Public Transportation
Treks
Route | Distance | Description | Route relation(s) | % Complete | Notes |
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Annapurna Circuit | 250? km | Trek around the Annapurna Sanctuary | 11873101187310 (i J) | 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) | 11890031189003 (i J) | route almost 100% complete (needs to be verified) guess many POI (guesthouses, facilities, drinking water) are still missing |
Downloads for Nepal
Cloudmade has an extract for Nepal dated 13 December 2011 available in the link Cloudmade. It contains .osm XML extract as well as other useful files (.img files for Garmin, .poly for a rough shape of nepal, ...)
Temporary XML Extract (approx. 1,8MB, OSM data from 28.10.2010) (dead link)
Geofabrik provides extracts for Nepal in various formats, see http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/nepal.html
Generating own extract for Nepal
The idea is to download asia.osm extract from Geofabrik, polygon from Cloudmade, cut with Osmosis. Here are the steps
- Go to http://download.geofabrik.de/openstreetmap/ and download asia.osm.pbf (pbf files are smaller in size)
- Go to http://downloads.cloudmade.com/asia/southern_asia/nepal#downloads_breadcrumbs and download nepal.poly
- Download and install Osmosis
- Run the command to create an extract nepal.osm
./osmosis --read-binary file="asia.osm.pbf" --bounding-polygon file="nepal.poly" --write-xml file="nepal.osm"
In case of normal .osm file
./osmosis --read-xml file="asia.osm" --bounding-polygon file="nepal.poly" --write-xml file="nepal.osm"
Map Downloads for Garmin GPS devices
- [1] OSM error edition (nepal.img.zip) (dead link)
- [2] OSM-mirror: Topographic trekking/city area maps (.img.zip):
1) Annapurna area, incl. Pokhara
2) Helambu & Langtang area, incl. Kathmandu & Bhaktapur
3) Everest area, incl. Jiri & Tumlingtar
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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.
Techniques
Mappers from Western countries (people who are remotely mapping) on the project should focus on the geometry development (Point, Line, Polygon) with highest possible spatial accuracy.
People nearby or at Nepal (Local People) should Name the features and add other important attributes (tags) of the spatial data.
Progress of geometry data as well as attribute information should be updated together. The collaboration of International mappers and local people makes the complete map because only geometry or the only text can never give complete information.
Imaginary preferences
- Bing
- DigitalGlobe Premium Imagery
- Mapbox
Editors
Resources
Official
- GIS and Map center (dead link)
Imaginary from drones
Contributing
First read the Getting_Involved
People
- Gaurav Thapa
- Statistic of active users in Nepal
- JoeRichards - trekking from Lukla to Everest Base Camp in November 09
- Aashish2025
- Amritkarma - Geomatics Engineer Creating OpenData
- Helina
- Marek Kleciak - Loves Nepal
- Manoj Thapa
- Nirab Pudasaini