Morocco

Morocco is a country in Africa at latitude 28°20′13.20″ North, longitude 9°24′00.00″ West.

This page is to coordinate mapping in Morocco (North West Africa).

The official languages are Arabic and Tamazight (ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ). French is widely spoken and used for administrative purposes.Spanish is mostly spoken in northern Morocco and the Moroccan Sahara known as southern provinces.

Moroccan OSM community channels

Areas being mapped

Mapping can be done by use of Maxar Standard Imagery or Maxar Premium Imagery as background in your prefered editor as these imagery are more upto date

How tagging the routes/ways?

In Morocco we have 5 classified routes:

• A - highway=motorway (Autoroute toll blue color)
• RN - highway=primary (National Routes (kilometre posts:red color))
• RR - highway=secondary ( Regional Routes(kilometre posts:yellow color))
• RP - highway=tertiary ( Provincial Routes(kilometre posts:lightblue color))
• by name - highway=residential (streets in cities,towns,villages)

Outside this classification:

• top end - highway=trunk several express routes (2x2 routes) have such an important role in their area that we recognize them as highway=trunk routes. These routes can be national, regional or provincial route and have no different official reference.
• low end - highway=unclassified minor routes that have not been classified, they have no reference and provide connections between minor dwellings. most are unpaved, some barely recognizable. in the dry season you can use them with a sedan or by bike.
• agricultural - highway=track roads which provide access to agricultural land, conservation areas, forestry for wood and pulp production. They do not provide other service.
• In the cities - highway=service especially in old medinas: challengingly narrow streets where vehicles are officially allowed. They are tagged mostly as service routes. This should not be abused, because we could end up tagging for the renderer, but access roads that lead nowhere except to properties, these are quite correctly tagged as highway=service, and that's generally how roads in medinas work: they lead to properties and there's no way back other than the way in.

Mapping names

The preferred order for names is French - Tamazight - Arabic.

See Multilingual_names#Morocco

How tagging the places?

Street view using OSM carte

Street view for few cities in Morocco using openstreetmap: http://carte.ma/

They confirmed the imagery can be used for OpenStreetMap.

Quality control

Quality control with Osmose

Data

Kaart groundwork

Kaart conducts ground surveys for improvements to OSM data. A list of editors can be found on Kaart wiki page.

• Mapillary imagery can be viewed here.
• OpenStreetCam Map can be viewed here.

People involved

• Martin: I would like to get some agreement on how to tag the main roads. Please see the discussion page. --23 October 2009
• Alilo I have extra GPSs 1 USB GPS, 2x PDA GPS, 1x Bluetooth GPS, If you are in Morocco and do not have a GPS contact me I might lend one.

Hello Alilo,

I standing the up to the second week in June in Agadir (for 10 days). Can you contact me!

--Helmut K 06:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

• nickb: I am interested in organising mapping parties in Marrakech - if anyone in Morocco would like to be involved, please contact me.
• memch: I implemented a background-tileserver for out-of-copyright maps of morocco. Just visit here, select useful background, zoom to your area and click once to open potlatch here. See my page memch for details. Feel free to contact me here.
• SN74LS00: My focus is mainly on extreme South of Morocco and Western Sahara.
• Sinplomo: Ive been doing some work mapping Tetouan (north of morocco). Contact me if you are interested in helping with Tetouan. I could help with motorways, primary and secondary ways, ask me !
• Johnparis: I mostly work on Oujda and Oriental, but I also use Osmose for quality control, so we have zero Level 1 or 2 errors.