Morocco
V・T・E Morocco, Africa  |
| latitude: 28.500, longitude: -9.400 boundary: 36304393630439, label: 432425041432425041 |
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Morocco Mapping Project, the home of Morocco on the OpenStreetMap wiki. |
| Salam! Welcome to the project for mapping efforts in Morocco! 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 Morocco. You may also find a list of contacts and mappers involved with the OpenStreetMap community in Morocco. |
According to the 2024 census, the country's population is of 36,828,330. The official languages are Arabic and Tamazight (ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ). French is used for administrative purposes.
This page aims to coordinate mapping in the country.
Community
The OSM community in Morocco is active and welcoming to new mappers. The easiest way to communicate with other members of the OSM community near you is by sending a message to any active mappers by checking the edit history of an area.
Active contributors
- Alain2003
- ilias: Mapper from Casablanca. Also created the page administrative divisions.
- assyzeus: Mapping Casablanca since 2024, mainly focusing on quartier Maârif Extension.
- Saghoura
- red0
- inquisitornaega: Mapping Berrechid since 2024.
- Neildm01
- TomTom: The company is driving the MapRoulette challenge "Morocco - Data Improvements"
Email list
Join the OpenStreetMap Morocco email list for discussions and updates. Subscribe here.
Guidelines
Road tagging
In Morocco, roads are classified as follows:
| Road | Tag | Description | Example |
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 A - Motorways (Autoroute Toll)
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highway=motorway | Major toll highways, marked with blue signs. | Autoroute A1 Autoroute A1
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| RN - National Routes | highway=primary | National roads with red kilometer posts. | Route Nationale 1 Route Nationale 1
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| RR - Regional Routes | highway=secondary | Regional routes, indicated by yellow kilometer posts. | Route Régionale 212 Route Régionale 212
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| RP - Provincial Routes | highway=tertiary | Provincial routes, marked with light blue kilometer posts. | Route Provinciale 3616 Route Provinciale 3616
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| City, Town, and Village Streets | highway=residential | Streets within populated areas, named and designated for residential use. | Rue Abou Al Mahassine Royani Rue Abou Al Mahassine Royani
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 Express Routes (Trunk Roads)
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highway=trunk | Important 2x2 express routes that serve major transit functions. These may be national, regional, or provincial routes without an official reference. | Route d'Azemmour Route d'Azemmour
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| Minor Unclassified Roads | highway=unclassified | Unclassified routes that connect small dwellings or remote areas. These roads are often unpaved and may only be accessible by bike or sedan during the dry season. | This road This road near the town of Oulad Frej.
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| Agricultural Access Tracks | highway=track | Roads primarily for agricultural, forestry, or conservation access. These do not serve general traffic. | This road This road providing access to a farm.
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| Service Roads in Cities (especially Medinas) | highway=service | Narrow streets, often found in old medinas, providing access to properties but not through routes. Tagging is generally limited to roads leading directly to properties.
Note: Avoid tagging for renderers; only use highway=service for access roads that serve specific properties or are narrow paths leading into medinas, as they often have no other purpose than property access. |
This road This road provinding access to a university.
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| Country | motorway | trunk | primary | secondary | tertiary | unclassified |
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 Morocco
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 Autoroute (A) Divided, toll roads highway with 2 or more lanes in each direction.
has speed limits of 120 km/h. |
Voie express,ringroads.Can be a single or a dual carriageway.
speed limit varies from 40 to 100 km/h. |
Nationale (N) linking cities |
Régionale (R) secondary | Provinciale(P) tertiary | Small routes paved or not Minor roads |
Names
Administrative names
In Morocco, the names of all the administrative areas (from the country itself down to arrondissements and neighborhoods) are written in French - Tamazight - Arabic.
name=Province de Tiznit ⵜⴰⵙⴳⴰ ⵏ ⵜⵉⵣⵏⵉⵜ إقليم تزنيت
name:ar=إقليم تزنيت
name:fr=Province de Tiznit
name:zgh=ⵜⴰⵙⴳⴰ ⵏ ⵜⵉⵣⵏⵉⵜ
Street names
Street names follow the same language order (French - Tamazight - Arabic), even though it can be rare to encounter street signs in Tamazight.
name=Boulevard Mohamed Zerktouni شارع محمد الزرقطوني
name:ar=شارع محمد الزرقطوني
name:fr=Boulevard Mohamed Zerktouni
Place names
Always follow the on the ground rule (see Good practice#Map what's on the ground). If a place displays its name in French and Arabic, then that's how you should name it in the name=* tag. Same thing if it only displays its name in Arabic or French only. Example for this building this building (see its image):
name=Résidence Ryad إقامة رياض
name:ar=إقامة رياض
name:fr=Résidence Ryad
Place tagging
| Settlement | Description | Comments |
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| place=city | A municipality having a population of at least 100,000 people and larger than nearby towns. | Like Rabat, Casablanca, Tanger... |
| place=suburb | A dependent municipality within a city, or an independent municipality next to a much bigger city. | |
| place=town | A municipality having a population of at least 10,000 people and good range of local facilities including schools, medical facilities etc and traditionally a market. | Like Skhirat, Tamesna, Sidi Kacem... |
| place=village | A municipality having a population less then 10,000 people, larger than an hamlet, and with a significant infrastructure. | Rural or urban Comunne |
| place=quarter | A populated urban part of a suburb, town, or village, larger than a neighbourhood. | Not a municipality. |
| place=neighbourhood | A populated urban part of a suburb, town, quarter, or village. | Not a municipality. |
| place=hamlet | A rural community less than 100-200 inhabitants, few infrastructure except a public access road or path. | Not a municipality. Mostly douars. |
| place=isolated_dwelling | A rural named place with a single inhabited building or farm, almost no infrastructure except a nearby road or a private access path. | Not a municipality. |
| place=locality | Other small named place without clearly defined borders and an unspecified number of buildings around. | Not a municipality. Only nodes, for example, a crossroad with a locally known name, or a former hamlet, or just some facilities (possibly disused). |
| Reference: Key:place |
Public Transport
This page is for collaborating the mapping of public transport routes (Buse,train,etc.) in Major Cities of Morocco
Administrative divisions
- Main article: Administrative divisions of Morocco
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| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
| Morocco
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N/A | Regions (Wilayah) (ولاية) (جهات المغرب) | Prefectures (العمالات) Provinces (الأقاليم) |
N/A | N/A | Urban Communes (Municipalities) (البلديات) (الجماعات الحضرية) | Préfectures d'Arrondissements (عمالات المقاطعات) (only in Casablanca) | Arrondissements (المقاطعات) (only in Casablanca, Rabat, Tanger, Marrakesh, Fez and Salé) | Quartiers (الأحياء) |
| Cercles (الدائرة) | Caïdats (القيادة) | Rural Communes (الجماعات القروية) | N/A | N/A | |||||
Useful links
Mapping tools and imagery
[1]:dataset Adminstrative boundaries for different applications(editors)note:Southern regions are not included in this dataset and boundaries between Algeria and Morocco are disputed,All other boundaries can be tagged.
Carte.ma: Street view for selected cities in Morocco, confirmed to be usable for OpenStreetMap.
Mapillary: A crowdsourced street-level imagery platform with many user-contributed 360° photos of Moroccan streets.
MarocInteractif: Provides a map of Morocco covering the entire country.
CityInfo: A website with comprehensive information on buildings and addresses in Casablanca.
Data Resources
RGPH 2024: Most recent population census which lists the population of the country's regions, prefectures, provinces, cercles, arrondissements.
Haut-Commissariat au Plan: Responsible for collecting, analyzing, and publishing official statistical data, including economic, demographic, and social statistics.
Morocco Open Data Site: Official Moroccan open data portal with information on post offices, postal codes, embassies, schools, and more.
Ministère de l’Équipement et de l'Eau: Contains maps of existing roads, though road numbers may not be fully up to date.
Quality Control
Osmose Quality Control: A tool for identifying and correcting mapping errors in Morocco’s OSM data.
Interview
The OpenCage Blog - Interview: OpenStreetMap in Morocco (archive), with Stéphane Branquart on 7 March 2016.
Kaart groundwork
Kaart conducts ground surveys for improvements to OSM data. A list of editors can be found on Kaart wiki page.
Tangier Province (April 2018)
- Ground Focus - Visual Collection of Street Names, Verification of Oneway Streets in Tanger, Gueznaia, Tétouan, Martil, M'Diq, Chefchaouen
- Issues - Many streets were unnavigable due to size of road (walkway/residential), Missing geometry
- Post Processing - Street Name Consistency, Turn Restrictions, Turning Lanes, Pedestrian Crossings, Surface Types and Lanes, Additional Geometry
Community Editing Suggestions - Medina geometry improvements, footpaths should be determined for length and continuity.
Casablanca (April 2018)
- Ground Focus - Visual Collection of Street Names, Verification of Oneway Streets in Metro Casablanca, El Jadida, Mohammadia
- Issues - Many streets were unnavigable due to size of road (walkway/residential), Missing geometry, Missing/Removed roundabouts
- Post Processing - Street Name Consistency, Turn Restrictions, Turning Lanes, Pedestrian Crossings, Surface Types and Lanes
Community Editing Suggestions - Medina geometry improvements
Marrakesh (April 2018)
- Ground Focus - Visual Collection of Street Names, Verification of Oneway Streets in Marrakesh, Agadir, Berrechid, Settat
- Issues - Many streets were unnavigable due to size of road (walkway/residential), Missing geometry, Missing/Removed roundabouts
- Post Processing - Street Name Consistency, Turn Restrictions, Turning Lanes, Pedestrian Crossings, Surface Types and Lanes
Community Editing Suggestions - Medina geometry improvements
Oujda (May 2018)
- Ground Focus - Visual Collection of Street Names, Verification of Oneway Streets in Oujda, Saïdia, Berkane, Nador, Imzouren, Al Hoceima
- Issues - Many streets were unnavigable due to size of road (walkway/residential), Missing geometry, Missing/Removed roundabouts
- Post Processing - Street Name Consistency, Turn Restrictions, Turning Lanes, Pedestrian Crossings, Surface Types and Lanes
Community Editing Suggestions - Medina geometry improvements, adding missing street names
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See also