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Nepal, Asia

नेपाल

latitude: 28.20997, longitude: 83.99162

Browse map of Nepal ^{28°12′35.89″ N, 83°59′29.83″ E}

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Nepal is a country in Asia at latitude 28°12′35.89″ North, longitude 83°59′29.83″ East.

Project area

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Administrative Division of Nepal

admin_level	Division Type	Note
2	National borders of Nepal	Currently in use
3	Development Regions	Not in current use (in use till 2015)
4	Provinces	Currently in use
5	Zones	Not in current use (in use till 2015)
6	Districts	Currently in use
7	Municipalities	Currently in use
8	VDCs	Not in current use (in use till 2015)
9	Wards	Currently in use

Road Network of Nepal

Nepal/Roads

Please see Nepal/National_Highways(new_numbering for National Highways
Please see Feeder Roads for Feeder Highways.
Please see District Roads for District Roads.

Mapping in Nepal

Getting Started

Read the Getting Involved page to begin contributing to OpenStreetMap. Simply, follow these steps:

Sign up and Login
Zoom in to your area of interest, or pick an at random (large cities tent to have more to do, but also roads and rivers in rural areas).
Click the edit tab at the top to switch to the online map editor (called 'iD').
Start tracing over the imagery by drawing lines and polygons.
For your elements to render on the map, the points and lines must be tagged appropriately. Select classifications on the left had side. See Map Features for tagging details. Incorrectly tagged objects will not show up on the map.
Done. Happy Mapping :D

Mappers are encouraged to use the JOSM offline editor once you are familiar with the basics and want to map large areas in much more detail.

Please see Nepal remote mapping guide for help with identifying features in Nepal's aerial imagery.

Imagery preferences

Naming Conventions

The attribute name will always be in native name in Nepali unicode. Example: Use "नेपाल" for the name keyword. Always use the official name when possible. If another name is more popular name:alt can be used. To write the names in other script, use name:en, name:ne, etc. Like:

Atrribute	Value
name	नेपाल
name:ne	नेपाल
name:en	Nepal

Other Guidelines

Please see Nepal remote mapping guide for help with identifying features in Nepal's aerial imagery.
Please see Nepal/Mapping Party Guidelines for guidelines for Mapping Party.
Please see Tagging Guidelines for OSM Nepal
Please see Project_Ilam_specification for an mapped reference area of agriculture, forest and other natural landuses.

Communication Platform for OSM Nepal

OpenStreetMap Community Forum

Nepal Community discussion on all topics related to OSM mapping in Nepal with experts all over the world.

Facebook

OSM Nepal for staying updated with all information and updates about the works being done, the progress being made while mapping and also future plans.

Telegram

OpenStreetMap Nepal

Organizations involved in OSM in Nepal

Local citizens from Bajrabarahi, Makwanpur, Nepal mapping their towns and villages. Kathmandu Living Labs, pioneer of OpenStreetMap in Nepal, was involved in training them. The training mostly focused on mapping agriculture and food security data

Different organizations in Nepal engage digital volunteers in remote mapping OpenStreetMap in Nepal. They organize events, discussions, and trainings to support Digital Mapping in Nepal. MapBuds is currently most active organization in OpenStreetMap mapping.

OSM Nepal is a community of active mappers who are voluntarily contributing to the OpenStreetMap of Nepal.
Kathmandu Living Labs - a pioneer civic-tech enterprise providing humane data and technology solutions to improve the lives of people.
MapBuds - a Geotech volunteering organization which focuses on OpenStreetMap datasets and various Geospatial domains.
GESAN - a non-political organization established with the notion of making union of all geomatics students of Paschimanchal Campus and an active inagural chapter of YouthMappers
GES - a pioneering society of Nepal, established in 2008 A.D. by students of Geomatics Engineering at Kathmandu University.
YouthInnovationLab - focused on technology development, disaster risk reduction, climate change, open data, entrepreneurship, data driven advocacy, youth engagement, and volunteerism
NAXA - a Geo-ICT technology consulting that strives for innovation in geospatial technologies to provide solutions to contemporary problems of humanity.

Meetings

OSM Nepal Meetup Dec 2022

Downloads for Nepal

Generating own extract for Nepal

Geofabrik provides extracts for Nepal in various formats, see http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/nepal.html

The idea is to download asia.osm extract from Geofabrik, polygon from Cloudmade, cut with Osmosis. Here are the steps:

Go to http://download.geofabrik.de/openstreetmap/ and download asia.osm.pbf (pbf files are smaller in size)
Go to http://downloads.cloudmade.com/asia/southern_asia/nepal#downloads_breadcrumbs and download nepal.poly
Download and install Osmosis
Run the command to create an extract nepal.osm

./osmosis --read-binary file="asia.osm.pbf" --bounding-polygon file="nepal.poly" --write-xml file="nepal.osm"

In case of normal .osm file

./osmosis --read-xml file="asia.osm" --bounding-polygon file="nepal.poly" --write-xml file="nepal.osm"

Other sites for OSM data

Treks

Route	Distance	Description	Route relation(s)	% Complete	Notes
Annapurna Circuit	250? km	Trek around the Annapurna Sanctuary	11873101187310 `(i J)`	route almost 100% complete (needs to be verified) guess many POI (guesthouses, facilities, drinking water) are still missing	Wikipedia: Annapurna Region
Annapurna Base Camp	? km	Trek to Annapurna Base Camp	1754899117548991 `(i J)`	footways almost 100% (needs to be verified), though not fully added to the relation yet guess many POI (guesthouses, facilities, drinking water) are still missing	Wikipedia: Annapurna Region
Everest Base Camp	? km	Trek to Everest Base Camp (EBC)	11890031189003 `(i J)`	route almost 100% complete (needs to be verified) guess many POI (guesthouses, facilities, drinking water) are still missing

Users in Nepal

Active Mappers/Contributors

Name	Usename	Name	Usename	Name	Usename
Amritkarma	amritkarma (on osm)	Anil Basnet	Anil Basnet (on osm)	Marek Kleciak	marek kleciak (on osm)
Heinz_V	Heinz_V (on osm)	Seichter	seichter (on osm)	Adrie Sonke	Adrie Sonke (on osm)
ManojThapa	ManojThapa (on osm)	Gaurav Parajuli	Gaurav Parajuli (on osm)	Rabi Shrestha	frozenrabi (on osm)
JoeRichards	JoeRichards (on osm)	Lalit BC	Lalit_IAAS (on osm)	Saurav Gautam	SauravGautam (on osm)
Sushma Ghimire	SushmaGhimire (on osm)	Sangeeta BC	Sangeeta BC (on osm)	Pragya Pant	Pragya Pant (on osm)

Most Experienced Mappers contributing in Nepal

Users	Mapping Days	Countries Mapped
Heinz_V	4500+	150+
seichter	3400+	60+
marek kleciak	2800+	110+
Manoj Thapa	2000+	80+
Anil Basnet	1500+	40+
Adrie Sonke	1300+	15
frozenrabi	900+	60+
Gaurav Parajuli	800+	35+
Ro Sun	900+	90+
amritkarma	600+	30+

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