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The Isle of Man (Mannin), Europe

latitude: 54.2007, longitude: -4.5681

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The Isle of Man (Mannin) is a British Crown dependency in Europe at latitude 54°12′02.52″ North, longitude 4°34′05.16″ West.

This page contains information relating to mapping activity on the Isle of Man, and the free map (and map data) of the Isle of Man being built up by the contributors.

Usage of official data

In 2007, the Isle of Man Government offered the use of their 1:100,000 small scale map of the Isle of Man to allow us to derive information from, for inclusion in OpenStreetMap. This allowed us to gather place name information, rivers, town and plantation boundaries, etc. all of which are of great value to the project. The following year, Cloudmade mapped the Island and donated the data to the project, adding a much greater level of detail to the data.

Isle of Man 2001 aerial imagery

Thanks to the further support of the Isle of Man Government, in 2009 we were offered the use of both the 1:25,000 scale tourist map of the Island from 2007, and the 2001 high resolution aerial imagery from which to derive data.

The aerial imagery is available as a Tile Map Service:

For the south of the Island (Calf of Man to Douglas):
- Link to edit the south of the Island
- Template: https://dan.dev.openstreetmap.org/tiles/2001/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg
For middle of the Island (Peel to Ramsey):
- Link to edit the middle of the Island
- Template: https://dan.dev.openstreetmap.org/tiles/2001_m/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg
For north of the Island (Ramsey to Point of Ayre):
- Link to edit the north of the Island
- Template: https://dan.dev.openstreetmap.org/tiles/2001_n/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg

Please remember that it's nearly 20 years old now, so some things have changed since the shots were taken. Please add a source=Isle of Man Government aerial imagery (2001) tag (or similar) to any objects derived from the aerial imagery.

Isle of Man 2007 1:25,000 map

The 1:25,000 map can be used through the following tile sets:

North East:
- Link to edit the North East
- Template: https://dan.dev.openstreetmap.org/tiles/2007_ne/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg
South East:
- Link to edit the South East
- Template: https://dan.dev.openstreetmap.org/tiles/2007_se/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg
South West:
- Link to edit the South West
- Template: https://dan.dev.openstreetmap.org/tiles/2007_sw/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg
North West:
- Link to edit the North West
- Template: https://dan.dev.openstreetmap.org/tiles/2007_nw/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg

Please add a source=Isle of Man Government 1:25000 map tag (or similar) to any objects derived from the map.

Using the tiles

To use the imagery, simply click one of the direct links above. A source tag will automatically be added to your changeset.

To use the imagery in JOSM, add a custom source to the slippymap plugin, levels 9 to 18 (or 9 to 16 for the 1:25,000 map).

Mapped features

Category	Name	Data
Places
	Douglas	38652636 38652636
	Castletown	25986135 25986135
	Port Erin	25989717 25989717
	Ramsey	25985917 25985917
	Peel	25987836 25987836
	Port St Mary	25988845 25988845
	Ballasalla	38256631 38256631
	Onchan	25987815 25987815
	Kirk Michael	283505157 283505157
	Colby	283489994 283489994
	Ballabeg	283519563 283519563
	Glen Vine	38336588 38336588
	Union Mills	283493479 283493479
	Crosby	38336596 38336596
	St Johns	283504450 283504450
	Foxdale	283481432 283481432
	Jurby	283501062 283501062
	Bride	283510000 283510000
Islands
	Isle of Man	6041206 6041206
	Calf of Man	25987471 25987471
Sheadings
	Ayre	1061144 1061144
	Garff	1061145 1061145
	Glenfaba	1061147 1061147
	Middle	1061146 1061146
	Michael	1028022 1028022
	Rushen	1061135 1061135
Road circuits
	Snaefell Mountain Course (Isle of Man TT circuit)	188240 188240
	Southern 100 Course	188641 188641
Railways
	Steam Railway	148241 148241
	Manx Electric Railway	25986379 25986379
	Snaefell Mountain Railway	25989689 25989689
	Groudle Glen Railway	27036461 27036461
	Douglas Horse Trams	59285960 59285960
	Orchid Line, Wildlife Park	231795 231795
Long Distance Footpaths
	Millennium Way
	Raad ny Foillan	231798 231798
Cycle routes
	1 (Douglas)	192623 192623
	2 (Castletown)	192635 192635
	2a	192846 192846
	2b	192847 192847
	3 (Port Erin, Port St Mary, Ballabeg and Colby)	192856 192856
	3a	192859 192859
	3b	192858 192858
	3c	192857 192857
	4 (Peel)	192889 192889
	4a	192890 192890
	5 (Ramsey)	192912 192912
	6 (Laxey)	192630 192630
Bus routes (work in progress)
	3	198595 198595
	5 (Douglas to Ramsey, via Peel)	176527 176527
	8 (Port Erin to Peel)	174760 174760

Helping out

Anybody can help out with mapping the Isle of Man for the Openstreetmap project - you just need to create an account and start editing.

For more information on how you can help the project out, see the Getting Involved section.

Mapping names in Manx and English

Many streets on the Isle of Man show their name in both English and Manx Gaelic, and each of the settlements also has a Manx name. Wherever we know it, we are storing both the English and Manx versions of a name, and using the English as the default version to show on the map.

To map names in English, simply use name tag, but if you can add the Manx name as well, please add that as name:gv and also duplicate the English name in a name:en tag.

Contributors

Cloudmade
Dan Karran
cclark
mentor
LDS
Shaun McDonald
Rob Mercer
Nick Black

(please add your name to the map if you're working on improving the map data for the Isle of Man)

Changes

Changes made to Isle of Man data can be monitored through the Changeset browser or using the equivalent RSS feed. Note that this list also includes changesets which span the Island (e.g. global changes to items in both Canada and Europe) but don't change anything within the Island itself.

Using the data

There are a number of ways you can use the free geodata for the Isle of Man. The downloads listed below are map extracts covering just the Isle of Man, updated weekly with the latest data.

Shapefile: Cloudmade Geofabrik
Garmin map files: Cloudmade
GPX (points of interest): Cloudmade
.osm format: Cloudmade Geofabrik
Other formats: Cloudmade

Sites using the Isle of Man mapping data:

themap.im

Mapping Parties

The first Isle of Man mapping party was held in 2007, and the map has come on immensely since then, especially with the help of a thorough mapping by a group from CloudMade (SteveC, NickB & Blackadder) in 2008. With the majority of the Island's roads now on the map, along with rivers, plantations and other geographic features, it's time to start adding finer detail to the map. On 1st August 2009 the second Isle of Man Mapping Party was held in Douglas to gather additional information to add to the map. A third mapping day was held in 2010 to add more detail to the map of Douglas.

OpenStreetMap Isle of Man in the news

Volunteers for street mapping project - Manx Radio / isleofman.com, 30 July 2007
Isle of Man Mapping Party - isleofman.com, 21 July 2009
The Isle of Man is mapped out and available online - BBC, 27 October 2010

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