WikiProject Armenia

V・T・E Armenia, Asia

latitude: 40.06, longitude: 45.03482

Browse map of Armenia 40°03′36.00″ N, 45°02′05.35″ E

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Users in Armenia GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps

External links: Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: en Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

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Armenia is a Country in Asia at latitude 40°03′36.00″ North, longitude 45°02′05.35″ East.

Welcome mappers of Armenia!

Things you can do

• There are many streets and highways that are missing. For example, the western outskirts of Gyumri.
• Look for any new buildings; change of name of shops, etc
• Add the Wikidata ID of settlements, notable buildings, parks, lakes, etc to the matching object in OSM

Satellite imagery

Microsoft's Bing Imagery is available, so it's not as obvious for enabling, as Yahoo's WMS. See this page on how-to enable Bing maps in your editor. Bing is quite hi res and fresh (around 2007-2008) but it shows only western part of city. And still doesn't include small centre of Yerevan. But instead it shows some Cities like Gyumir, Echmiadzin, part of Ashtarak, Artashat, etc..

GPS tracks

It seems that all of the old waypoints (before 2010) where taken from this satellite material. As previous incidents have shown, satellite maps may be off by a few meters. Though current Yahoo! WMS in Yerevan accuracy is comparable with accuracy of GPS in hilly city itself, it's still preferable to refer to GPS tracks. It's very important to refer to GPS tracks when using Microsoft Bing imagery, as it's images are noticeably shifted (up to 10 metres sometimes).

Please check accuracy (HDOP) before starting writing tracks, and always preview your tracks before upload. If necessary trim beginning/end of track, if they have messy data there. Later it's quite hard, to hide just one track in Editor, so if you upload messy data, it will make mapping that are with GPS quite hard.

Naming conventions

The question arises in what alphabet the roads and amenities should be named. Current naming convention is:

• Armenian (required name, and name:hy)
• Latin with English name:en or international transcription int_name (this is quite important, as not all navigation software/GPS devices, display the Armenian language properly)

Cyrillic as well other alphabets/languages are optional.

In OSM normally the "local" Language is used (naming and name). That would mean

• name = the Armenian name with Armenian charset
• name:hy = the Armenian name with Armenian charset again
• int_name = international name with latin charset (transcription?)
• name:en = the name used in English language (latin)
• name:ru = the name used in Russian language (cyrillic)
• ...

It is useful to have the Armenian name twice, once in the "name" tag so it can be used as "default" name, and a second time in the "name:hy" tag, so a map renderer that wants to generate a map with Armenian names preferred can do so without checking if the place is actually inside Armenia.

Useful resources

• Lately house-number labels, are being put on buildings again, so outdoor mapping is quite useful.
• Avoid trusting other maps, like Google Map, or PDF maps of Yerevan you can often see in different places. They often include serious mistakes (like streets/buildings which don't actually exist, wrong building number). It's better not to have info at all, then to have a wrong information. It is forbidden to copy information from such maps into OSM, due to copyright issues.