Jamaica

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Jamaica, Caribbean, North America
latitude: 18.141, longitude: -76.972
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Jamaica is a country in Caribbean, North America at latitude 18°08′27.60″ North, longitude 76°58′19.20″ West.
Jamaica Mapping Project,
the home of Jamaica on the OpenStreetMap wiki.
Hello! Welcome to the project for mapping efforts in Jamaica!
You can find here national events, ongoing projects, map status and mapping guidelines, as well as links to other pages directly related to the mapping of Jamaica.
You may also find a list of contacts and mappers involved with the OpenStreetMap community in Jamaica.

Administrative boundaries

Jamaica is divided into fourteen parishes as follows:

  • Hanover  319347
  • Saint Elizabeth  319352
  • Saint James  319345
  • Trelawny  319341
  • Westmoreland  319351
  • Clarendon  1637035
  • Manchester
  • Saint Ann  319340
  • Saint Catherine
  • Saint Mary  319343
  • Kingston & St. Andrew Corporation  319355
  • Portland  319344
  • Saint Thomas  319362

National Parks

  • Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park

Roads

The Jamaican road network is quite extensive and varied. To adequately capture the complexities the following tagging scheme is suggested. In addition the surface tag can be applied to specify the type of surfacing. This is particularly useful to record unsurfaced roads.

TypeDescriptionSuggested tags
Highway2000Modern freewayshighway=trunk + ref= + name=
AOlder main roads that still represent primary routeshighway=primary + ref=A#
BSecondary routeshighway=secondary + ref=B#
ParochialRoads maintained by the parisheshighway=tertiary + designation=parochial + name=
ParochialSmaller or less direct roads that are also maintained by the parisheshighway=unclassified + designation=parochial + name=
UnclassifiedOther roads outside of residential areas that aren't maintained by the parisheshighway=unclassified, name=

List of major roads

RefDescriptionRelation, if applicable
A1Kingston to Lucea
A2Spanish Town to Savanna-la-Mar
A3Kingston to Saint Ann's Bay
A4Kingston to Annotto Bay
B1Kingston to Buff Bay
B2Bog Walk to White Hall
B3May Pen to Brown's Town
B4Trout Hall to Walderston
B5Shooters Hill to Jackson Town
B6Montpelier to Shooters Hill
B7Shettlewood to Baptist
B8Savanna-la-Mar to Montego Bay
B9Lucea to Savanna-la-Mar
B10Oxford to Duncans
B11Falmouth to Claremont
B12Freetown to May Pen
B13Linstead to Oracabessa
B15Montego Bay to Falmouth



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Iberian Peninsula
España · Portugal
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