Oman

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Oman, Western Asia, Asia

latitude: 21.512583, longitude: 55.923255

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Oman is a country in Western Asia, Asia at latitude 21°30′45.30″ North, longitude 55°55′23.72″ East.

	Oman Mapping Project, the home of Oman on the OpenStreetMap wiki.
	Hello! Welcome to the project for mapping efforts Oman! 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 Oman. You may also find a list of contacts and mappers involved with the OpenStreetMap community Oman.

Guidelines

Naming

The official language of Oman is Arabic so Arabic should be used as the primary language in name= tags. The following name tagging scheme should be used:

name=<default name> Arabic name
name:ar=<arabic name> Arabic name, should be identical to the name=<default name> tag
name:en=<english name> English name, should be added, if available

Example: the name tag for the governorate of Muscat is as follows: name=مسقط name:en=Muscat name:ar=مسقط.

Major places in Oman

National capital

Muscat

Administrative Regions and their places

by ISO 3166-2 code
ISO ID	Governorate	Arabic name	Capital
OM-DA	Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate	محافظة الداخلية	Nizwa
OM-ZA	Ad Dhahirah Governorate	محافظة الظاهرة	Ibri
OM-BS	Al Batinah North Governorate	محافظة شمال الباطنة	Sohar
OM-BJ	Al Batinah South Governorate	محافظة جنوب الباطنة	Rustaq
OM-BU	Al Buraimi Governorate	محافظة البريمي	Al Buraimi
OM-WU	Al Wusta Governorate	محافظة الوسطى	Haima
OM-SS	Ash Sharqiyah North Governorate	محافظة شمال الشرقية	Ibra
OM-SJ	Ash Sharqiyah South Governorate	محافظة جنوب الشرقية	Sur
OM-ZU	Dhofar Governorate	محافظة ظفار	Salalah
OM-MA	Muscat Governorate	محافظة مسقط	Muscat
OM-MU	Musandam Governorate	محافظة مسندم	Khasab

Cities/Provinces

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Oman

Roads

Road Classification

Mashreq international roads

List of the official routes in Oman


Route No.	Type	Course	Relation	Status
01	Trunk	Muscat - UAE (Kalba)	148622 148622	Complete
02	Primary	Khasab - UAE (Ras Al Khaimah)	151951 151951	Complete
03	Primary	Bu Baqarah - UAE (Umm Al Ghaff)	148623 148623
05	Trunk	Al Aqar - UAE (Hatta)	148601 148601
07	Trunk	Sohar - Al Buraimi	151955 151955
08		Sohar - Ibri	368963 368963
09		Al Khaburah - Ibri	368545 368545
10		Rustaq - Ibri	369119 369119
11		Al Masnaah - Rustaq	152335 152335
13		Barka - Rustaq	152342 152342
15		Muscat - Nizwa	151582 151582
17		Muscat - Sur	369166 369166
21		Nizwa - UAE (Mezyad)	152463 152463
23		Bidbid - Sur	151928 151928
25			Relation not defined yet
27			152079 152079
28			152062 152062
31		Nizwa - Salalah	152364 152364
32		Sinaw - Madrakah	152432 152432
33		Izki - Sinaw	152458 152458
35		Al Kamil - Al Ashkharah	152055 152055
37		Hayma - Al Saadanat	152365 152365
39		Thumrayt - Hayma	152367 152367
41		?	162168 162168
43		?	Relation not defined yet
45		Thumrayt - Rakhyut	152427 152427
47		Salalah - Yemen	152417 152417
49		Salalah - Mirbat	152389 152389

Tracks

Track Classification

All ways with unpaved surface which can be used by normal cars should be tagged as track (type 1 or 2). Ways which can only be used by 4WD-cars should be tagged as track type 3, 4 or 5. All other ways that cannot be used by cars should be tagged as path.

Tracktype

Used to describe the surface quality of the track, path or road.

Key	Value	Comment	Photo
tracktype	grade1	Solid^[1]. Usually a paved surface (called also Sealed road), often also tagged with `surface=asphalt;concrete;chipseal;paved` etc.
tracktype	grade2	Mostly solid. Usually an unpaved track with surface of gravel mixed with a varying amount of sand, silt, and clay. See Gravel road on Wikipedia. May be applicable to heavily degraded and crumbled roads which was paved in past. Often also tagged with `surface=gravel;compacted;fine_gravel` etc.
tracktype	grade3	Even mixture of hard and soft materials. An unpaved track.
tracktype	grade4	Mostly soft. An unpaved track prominently with soil/sand/grass, but with some hard or compacted materials mixed in.
tracktype	grade5	Soft. An unimproved track lacking hard materials, uncompacted, with surface of soil/sand/grass.
tracktype	<no value>	If no tracktype tag is present, the track is rendered with a dot-dash line style (as shown right).	Photo not applicable