Scotland

Scotland (Gaelic: Alba) is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom.

Scotland is a country in United Kingdom, Europe at latitude 57°52′48.00″ North, longitude 4°34′12.00″ West.

Welcome

Welcome to the Openstreetmap wiki project page for Scotland. This page collects some of the projects that are of interest to Scottish Mappers. We also list the projects where local groups have set up regular social meetings so you can have a chance to meet other mappers face to face.

You can follow @OSMScotland on twitter for Scottish OSM news

For general discussion or to get in touch with the community, you can join the talk-scotland mailing list.

Social Meetings

In Scotland we have reasonably regular pub meetings. These are generally informal and relaxed, and tend to be in a pub, although there are also Missing Maps Project nights too. How regular they are depends on the local group. In Edinburgh, these are now happening monthly. Historically, there were meetings every 3 months in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and one other place, but this has not been happening recently due to lack of interest.

If you are setting up any regular monthly, quarterly or biannually meeting please add a note of them here.

• Edinburgh#Social_Events meetings generally 3rd Tuesday of the month in the Guildford Arms
• Glasgow#Social_Events meetings happening but not on a regular schedule. We have been meeting recently for missingmap events in the Project Cafe.
• Stirling#Social_Events no regular meetings planned.

Mapping Parties

• Aberdeen/MapHack/2014-11 on 22nd November 2014

• Stirling on 23 August 2014. See the Stirling page for more details.

• Edinburgh/MappingParty/2014-03 Duddingston, near Edinburgh, March 2014

• Culbokie Mapping Party with Transition Black Isle, Sat 7 September 2013

• Mapping party in Dunbar Sat 23 March 2013

• Mapping_Party/Shotts, 2012

• Mapping_Party/New_Lanark, 2012

Workshops

There was a workshop in Glasgow on Sat 23 Feb at MAKlab more details here Glasgow/Hack_Day_Feb_2013

See details of our last mapping workshop on Saturday 17 March 2012 here

More events soon, keep an eye on this page

State of the Map Scotland

• State of the Map Scotland 2015 took place in October 2015
• State of the Map Scotland 2014 was postponed. Too much mapping going to arrange conference
• State of the Map Scotland 2013 took place October 2013
• State of the Map Scotland 2012 took place in October 2012
• State of the Map Scotland 2011 took place in August 2011

OSM Scotland facts

Some facts about the Scottish OpenStreetMap as of October 2011:

• Approximately, 1452 unique accounts have edited the map in Scotland
• 97.9% of road names have been added when compared with the Ordnance Survey dataset (as of January 2014), with all council areas now >95% complete. Ref: ITO
• 836 bike racks with the capacity to accommodate around 6682 bikes are on the map
• 2540Km of cycle lanes and cycle paths have been mapped (only covers a select number of cycle way tags)

Ordnance Survey 7th Series

Some old Ordnance Survey maps of Britain are coming out of copyright, starting with Scotland. A project is running to scan and rectify these maps, then make them available to trace within Potlatch and JOSM.

For more information, see 7th Series.

Gaelic names

Many places in Scotland have Gaelic names - these are often shown on road signs in the West Highlands, and on street signs in some towns. Gaelic names can be tagged using name:gd=* (with name=* for the name in English). In places where Gaelic is the main language (eg the Western Isles), the Gaelic name can be tagged using name=*, with name:en=* for the English names.

The national advisory partnership for Gaelic names is Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland). They have produced place-name lists for several trunk roads and a number of areas of Scotland. These lists have been researched, and agreed with local authorities, so can be considered to be the definitive Gaelic forms of the names. Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba have been contacted, and confirmed the Gaelic forms of the names themselves are uncopyrightable, so are fine to use in OpenStreetMap.

An OSM rendering showing the Gaelic names, and a map in Garmin format, is available at OSM Alba.

See also: Multilingual names

Unitary Authorities

Also known as Council Areas, there are 32 unitary Authorities in Scotland. They were established on 1 April 1996. ^[1] They were established by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. ^[2]

Lieutenancy areas of Scotland

Preserved counties are counties based on the historic counties of Scotland and used for lieutenancy. See also the English Wikipedia page about Lieutenancy areas of Scotland.

Cities

The following tables shows our progress with mapping the cities in Scotland.

See also Category:Cities in Scotland

Towns and villages

The following tables shows our progress with mapping various towns and villages in Scotland.

See also Category:Towns in Scotland and Category:Villages in Scotland

Please add a town or village that you're interested in or tracking/mapping here. Try to keep the list ordered by Town Name. Where necessary create a sub page to try and keep this table quite succinct.

See Also...

• Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom#Long Distance Routes (Scotland)

References