Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a country in Asia at latitude 8°00′00.00″ North, longitude 81°00′00.00″ East.

Project to create an open and free map of Sri Lanka in OpenStreetMap. Join us !

See 2016 Sri Lanka Floods for map data resources covering the flood affected regions, and coordination of further crisis response mapping

Getting started

If you are a new Sri Lankan mapper, please check out the following places:

1. Add yourself to Category:Users in Sri Lanka
2. Put your name in the WikiProject_Sri_Lanka#Contributors table
3. The OSM Beginners' Guide and Getting Involved page
4. JOSM heavy duty offline editor JOSM
5. If you have a question, you can post it to the Sri Lanka-talk mailing list(see above) or post it in the FAQ section where you can browse through commonly asked questions.
6. Check the Sri Lanka/Meets page to see if there any user meets or mapping parties in your city. or why not start one?
7. More in formations and discussions in http://lkosm.freeforums.net [1]

Mailing List and Facebook Group

TO ask questions, to discuss tagging for Sri Lanka, to stay updated with all information and updates about the works being done, the progress being made while mapping, future plans, please join the mailing list, the Facebook group, and the forum:

• https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-lk
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/142058222659672/
• http://lkosm.freeforums.net

Common Features and Tagging Guidelines

Tagging for features commonly found in Sri Lanka are described in the link below:

• All tagging guidelines
• Road guidelines: Roads
• Building Guidelines
• Power networks

Custom presets for Sri Lanka: _add link_

Feel free to add more features to the guidelines

OpenStreetMap Work in Sri Lanka

Open Data for Resilience Initiative supported by the World Bank: Work done in Batticaloa: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SriLanka/Batticaloa

Contributors

Please add your name if missing.

City	Users
Akuressa	User:Lkmapper
Avissawella	User:Janith96
Batticaloa	User:Lkmapper
Colombo	User:ajithkarunaratne
Colombo, Batticaloa	User:Deavas
Colombo, Batticaloa	User:Suthakaran
Colombo, Batticaloa	User:Danaja
Colombo, Kandy	User:Mifan
Eheliyagoda	User:Janith96
Galle	User:Lkmapper
Galle	User:Gazaly
Gampaha	User:Nipunanr
Hambanthota	User:Thilina
Jaffna	User:Umapathy
Kuruwita	User:Janith96
Kilinochchi	User:Umapathy
Matara	User:Lkmapper
Matara	User:salikahamed
Matara	User:Thilina
Nuwara Eliya	User:Ttheek
Mullaitivu	User:Umapathy
Ratnapura	User:Janith96
Vavuniya	User:Umapathy

Lets Discuss

• https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-lk

OpenStreetMap Sri Lanka Evolution

Sri Lanka OSM evolution between 2015 January - 2018 July. Click on image to see animation.