Egypt 2019 2020 DE Project

Digital Egypt will start a project to improve OSM Maps in Egypt. We will continuously update this page as we expand our work and users.

All data entered will be verified by Digital Egypt.

We will closely adhere to the OSM standards and the Egypt Wiki Page and look forward to closely working with the OSM community. Please reach out to us at osm@digitaleg.com or through the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/405747563534310

Tasks:

• Improve road alignment
• Use local knowledge to make corrections to the road network as required
• Add road names
• Expand road network to cover newly constructed areas
• Add missing geocodes
• Add and update pedestrians network
• Add and Update Turn by Turn Tags

Cities and Areas currently under map improvement:

• Update highway network all over Egypt
• Add TBT Tags in main cities in Egypt

Cities and Areas where project is complete:

New Cairo is entirely mapped.

• Badr City
• Madinaty
• Beit Al Watan
• Al Mustakbal Phase 1
• Al Lotus Sector
• Northern Investors Extension
• Al Kawthar Sector
• Al Narges and Southern Investors.
• Al Yasmine, Al Banafseg, Southern Academy, Services Area and Northern Investors.
• First Settlement
• Eastern Academy
• Mirage Al Golf
• Society of Officers Housing
• Lake View
• Cairo Festival City
• First and Second Sector Services Area
• Dar Masr Phase 1 & 2
• Sakan Masr Phase 1 & 2
• Al Andalos Housing & Al Andalos Family Housing
• 6th of October City
• 10th of Ramadan City
• Cairo Governorate
• Giza Governorate
• Al Qalyubia Governorate
• Alexandria Governorate
• Port Said Governorate
• Red Sea Governorate
• Al Sharqia Governorate
• Al Daqahlia Governorate
• Al Gharbia Governorate
• Damietta Governorate
• Al Menofia Governorate
• Kafr Al Sheikh Governorate
• Al Beheira Governorate
• Ismailia Governorate
• Suez Governorate
• Aswan Governorate
• Al Fayoum Governorate
• Bani Sewif Governorate
• Sohag Governorate
• Asyout Governorate
• New Aswan City
• Luxor Governorate
• Al Minya Governorate
• Qena Governorate
• South Sinia Governorate
• Matrouh Governorate
• New Valley Governorate

Address Tags:

Below are the tags we will be using for geocode addresses and a corresponding example of a value.

addr:housenumber=50  

addr:street=شارع الحرية  

addr:street:en=Al Horeya Street  

addr:subdistrict=المجاورة الثالثة  

addr:subdistrict:en=Third Neighborhood

addr:district=منطقة جاردينيا (المنطقة الرابعة سابقاً)

addr:district:en=Gardenia Area (Fourth Area Previously)

addr:city=مدينة الشروق

addr:city:en=El Shorouk City

addr:postcode=11837  

addr:province=القاهرة

addr:province:en=Cairo  

addr:country=EG

Contributes:

Username	Link	Status
mego_map	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mego_map	Active
Amr@Gis	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Amr@Gis	Inactive
Gisolic	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Gisolic	Inactive
ashs_as	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ashs_as	Active
nona mostafa	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/nona%20mostafa	Active
little_maper	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/little_maper	Active
Princess_Aurora	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Princess_Aurora	Active
GISH_ElAseel	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/GISH_ElAseel	Inactive
Sara Qasem	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/sara%20qasem	Inactive
D_E15	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/D_E15	Inactive
emo_sami	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/emo_sami	Inactive
salma_z	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/salma_z	Active
Eman_Mehrez	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Eman_Mehrez	Active
alyaa_hossam	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alyaa_hossam	Inactive
Mona_Younis	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mona_Younis	Inactive
Eslam_Elsayed	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Eslam_Elsayed	Active
Abdelrahman_mahmoud	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Abdelrahman_mahmoud	Inactive
Yasmeen_Harby	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Yasmeen_Harby	Inactive
cielo hermoso	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/cielo%20hermoso	Inactive
nour_saeed	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/nour_saeed	Inactive
maher_elgammal	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maher_elgammal	Inactive
khaled_Loll	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/khaled_Loll	Inactive
Eslam_Fasih	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Eslam_Fasih	Inactive
Ola_Alaa	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ola_Alaa	Inactive
abdelhamed993	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/abdelhamed993	Inactive
shimaa_magdy	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/shimaa_magdy	Inactive
Mai_Sabry	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mai_Sabry	Inactive
Sabah_Elmahmoudy	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Sabah_Elmahmoudy	Inactive