Lithuania

Lithuania is a Country in Europe at latitude 55°12′00.00″ North, longitude 24°00′00.00″ East.

Things To Do

Here is a list of the necessary works. This is not a debate :)

Lithuanian road network

There are three kinds of roads in Lithuania maintained by the government:

• Magistraliniai ("trunk", "A-road") -- the roads having the A-numbers, between major cities and transit routes. 1750 km total length. Part of A1 and A2 are motorways, some more are dual carriageways, but most others are 6-10 m. wide asphalt concrete covered roads.
• Krašto ("land") -- roads having three-digit numbers, mostly connecting small towns. 4947 km total.
• Rajoniniai ("regional", or "county") -- roads with four digit numbers, mostly connecting villages. Many of them still have gravel cover. 14626 km total length.

Mapping of OSM road types to Lithuanian roads

Note: lanes are not mapped as separate ways in Lithuania (as usual). The reason is that highway=* road lines are defined as representing carriageways.

The following is proposed classification. Currently, roads outside of main cities mostly follow classification adjacent to Lithuanian route number classification system. Classifying roads in cities and towns as trunk, secondary, tertiary, residential, unclassified is mostly a judgement call, it vaguely follows current proposed system.

Roads outside of cities/towns

Rules applies for roads outside of urban areas (rules that applies outside of urban areas with adjacent signage implemented).

• motorway:
  • Roads signed with motorway (Lithuanian: automagistralė) or expressway (greitkelis) signs, motorway or expressway rules (like speed limits) apply.
• trunk:
  • all other A-roads, incl. all other types of roads that performs transit function of given A-road (bypass of the city or A-road itself that transits through inner core of the city/town without bypass alternative).
• primary:
  • primarily used for land roads (three digit number routes signs in yellow background)
  • paved county roads with higher significance (county road with characteristics of primary road.
  • A-road or county road directly leading to city main (category B) street and there is apropriate bypass alternative for mapping trunk road.
  • A-road or county road directly connecting other A-road or primary road to neighboring country road which has status comparable with Lithuanian primary road, e.g. Latvian or Belarussian P-road);
• secondary:
  • primarily used for paved county roads
  • roads leading to or are of function of category C1 streets which are not part of Lithuanian extraurban road number classification.
• tertiary:
  • unpaved county roads
  • isolated paved sections without any connection with main paved road network in Lithuania (except if paved road is connected by ferry).
  • roads leading to C2 category streets or serving function of C2 category street that are not part of Lithuanian road number classification system (if road is paved it should be additionally tagged as paved)
• unclassified:
  • other roads, that are not classified (some roads may be marked as tracks instead of unclassified).
• road:
  • if you do not know which classification the road should get - use "road", this would indicate to other mappers that this way has to be investigated and reclassified. You can check the map of Lithuania with classified roads and surface of them.

Roads in cities/towns

Classification of Lithuanian urban area streets:

• category A: High-Speed streets (Lithuanian: greito eismo gatvės). Minimum amount of at grade junctions, speed limit usually 60+ km/h.
• category B - Main streets (Lithuanian: pagrindinės gatvės)
• category C - streets serving neighborhoods with main streets (Lithuanian: aptarnaujančios gatvės)
  • C1 (outdated but useful for OSM mapping) - C category street with additional importance.
  • C2 (outdated but useful for OSM mapping) - other C category streets
• category D - Auxiliary streets (Lithuanian: pagalbinės gatvės)
  • D1-1 - Public transportation only (Lithuanian: Viešojo susisiekimo)
  • D1-2 - Light traffic street (Lithuanian: Ramaus eismo gatvė)
  • D1-3 - Park road (Lithuanian: Parko gatvė ar kelias)
  • D2-1 - Pedestrian street (Lithuanian: Pėsčiųjų gatvė)
  • D2-2 - Dead end (Lithuanian: Akligatvis)
  • D2-3 - Alley (Lithuanian: Skersgatvis)
  • D2-4 - Parking street (Lithuanian: Gatvė - automobilių aikštelė)
• category E - Main footways and cycleways (Lithuanian: pagrindinės pėsčiųjų ir dviračių eismo gatvės ir takai)
• category F - Other footways and cycleways (Lithuanian: pagalbiniai pėsčiųjų ir dviračių eismo takai, šaligatviai (juostos)).

Proposed guideline (see Highway tag usage):

• trunk:
  • A-road transport transit that has to pass the inner core of the city/town without reliable bypass alternative
  • A category streets (half or full profile urban expressways with minimal amount of at grade junctions).
• primary:
  • B category streets, streets with B category street characteristics (may have speed limit of 60+ km/h).
  • primary road transit that has to pass the inner core of the city/town without reliable bypass alternative.
• secondary:
  • C1 category streets, most important streets of individual neighborhoods
  • county road that transits through inner core of the city (may or may not have reliable bypass alternative)
• tertiary:
  • C2 category streets, other more important streets of individual neighborhoods.
• residential:
  • D category streets, less important streets of individual neighborhoods with street name.
• unclassified:
  • not used for urban streets.
• service:
  • D category streets without street names, and is used for inner living or built-up other territories.
• road:
  • if you do not know what classification should be assigned to given road (this would indicate to other mappers that way has to be investigated and reclassified).

Street names

Street name is entered as: name + abbreviation, where abbreviation is one of following:

• aikštė - a.
• akligatvis - aklg.
• alėja - al.
• aplinkkelis - aplinkl.
• gatvė - g.
• kelias - kel.
• plentas - pl.
• prospektas - pr.
• skersgatvis - skg.
• skveras - skv.
• takas - tak.

Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės sprendimai. Žodžiai pavadinime "gatv pavadinim".

Addresses

Key:addr:* should be used when capturing address information.

Communication

You can subscribe to talk-lt list to discuss Lithuania specific issues or get in touch with other Lithuanian OSM'ers.

You can also find us on IRC irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-lt.

Imports

Provided data imports in Lithuania:

• Corine Land Cover imports
• Public document imports

How you can help

• Fill in names of streets - some streets are mapped but their name is not captured. There is a "noname" layer in main OSM slippy map which will indicate unnamed ways: [1]. If you happen to know name of the street or can go there and check the name - you can add name tag to the street (alternatively, if you are not registered with OSM and do not want to register - you can create bug in www.openstreetbugs.org and specify street name there).
• Fill in names/descriptions of points of interest (POIs). For example there could be a fuel station or restaurant without a name. You can survey and add missing name to the map.
• Fix bugs - some bugs do not require you to have a GPS device. For example a bug maybe referring to situation when two ways are crossing but it is not known if it is intersection, or if one way is bridge or tunnel going above or below another way. You can then fix the problem (either in OSM database if you're registered, or by simply adding a comment to openstreetbugs.org).
• Check missing roads. There is a list of missing roads. You can help deal with that. Detailed procedure is given in that page WikiProject_Lithuania/Roads.
• Map missing ways - check list of missing roads and trace them.
• Fix bugs - check Notes, do survey and fix or comment problems
• Add POIs - there are thousands of places of interest which are not on the map. Check if shops, restaurants, museums, ATMs, castles, hillforts, tourism shelters or interesting places are mapped, if no - get their coordinates and put them on the map.

Note! - you can always consult Map_Features or contact lithuanian mappers list to get information on how to map some particular features.

Thank you and good luck!

Rules

WikiProject_Lithuania/Topology_rules

External references

• 'Lithuania' on Wikipedia
• Lithuanian Road Authority webpage
• The list of all state roads (PDF) Since this document is a resolution of Lithuanian Government, it is non-copyrighted.
• [2] List of all bicycle paths along state roads.
• keliai2009.gif Map of roads with numbers.
• [3] Garmin gmpasupp.img map of Lithuania. Downloadable list of openstreetbugs for Lithuania (html, gpx, csv formats).
• List of Lithuanian towns
• [4] Naming and writing of street names (Lithuanian)

Quality Control

• Quality control with Osmose