Download map of Georgia on OpenStreetMap is over!

Hooray! Finally, OpenStreetMap has finished importing a database from JumpStart Georgia , in the creation of which up to 1000 volunteers have participated since October 2009.



During the 2008 Russian-Georgian war, many noticed that Google Maps didn’t have a map of Georgia at all and wondered why. Google responded that it simply had nowhere to get high-quality map data for Georgia.



And here the state institutions of Georgia (especially the National Public Registry Agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia ) and the non-profit organization JumpStart Georgia decided to undertake efforts for Georgia to appear on Google Maps. Since October 2009, data collection has begun. More than 40 organizers and up to 1000 volunteers with GPS devices and Walking Papers participated in the project.

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As a result, all the cartographic information was collected and uploaded for downloading on the Internet. JumpStart Georgia sent data to Google. In February, a large-scale database import into OpenStreetMap began ( I wrote about this on Habré ), organized by Rukeli . Russians also took part in the import. In April 2011, Georgia appeared on Google Map Maker .



And finally, half a year later, on September 7, 2011, the organizer of the import, Rukeli, announced that it was completed: all 11 regions of the country were loaded, but it was decided not to import Tbilisi, since its map was better in OSM.



Rukeli would like to thank everyone who helped import, especially nikusha, Andro, gguj, Glebius and Davidgogishvili. “And of course, many thanks to JumpStart International , which made this possible. We are glad to finally see the whole of Georgia on the map, the best and possibly the only good digital map of Georgia available on the Internet. We are looking forward to improving the map from the community and we are happy that everyone can access the map through OSM, as well as through mapspot.ge . ”



You can see the map of Georgia here . If you find an error or inaccuracy on the map, please report it to a special error collection site and it will be fixed as soon as possible. Better to correct these errors yourself and join the further improvement of the map .



All map data is also available on your Android phone (download fresh * .apk OsmAnd and data for it ). There are also other programs for other platforms .



There is data for Garmin navigators (.img for MapSource) from GIS-Lab and CloudMade , Navitel , SitiGID , PoketGIS , Navit , TomTom . Also available are a database of administrative divisions, a coastline, roads in OSM XML format, .poly files, shapefiles, Adobe Illustrator files, and GPI POIs. Just in case, let me remind you that all the same is available for Russia. And all the data is open - the project data is distributed under the license Creative Commons BY-SA version 2.0 (by reference the translation of the text into Russian!).



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www.georgiatimes.info/news/55375.html

www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/184098





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