OpenStreetMap
I have found an authoritative but slightly out-of-date list of provinces, districts, and municipalities in Turkmenistan, have corrected and updated it based on recent press releases, and posted it to the OSM wiki:
osm.wiki/Districts_in_Turkmenistan
I am also working with my embassy’s motor pool to identify the national highways, which are either not tagged or are in some cases mistagged. This will be a bit of a project over the summer as we research the Turkmen national highway system and bring the OSM map up to date. My ambition is to have a complete map of Turkmenistan’s national highway network, all properly tagged.
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Komentář od rayKiddy z 13. 07. 2018 v 18:24
Hello -
I am tempted to ask whether you have relations in OSM for the definitions of these districts. But it seems your use-case is much more complex than mine. I am tracking city and county boundaries in California.
Do districts in Turkmenistan geographically tile the country? Or do any overlap? Do you have any relations and ways for them?
For example, in the US, counties tile a state, so no spaces in a state are not in some county, but cities or towns do not tile any county.
When I have my site up, it may still be useful for someone doing what you are doing, to help track the integrity of the districts or the integrity of whatever is known about them. The differences are already giving me ideas about my app.
What are the column headings in the list you refer to above? Are those column headings? Google cannot seem to translate them. I expected something like “Name” or … something.
Komentář od apm-wa z 14. 07. 2018 v 03:22
No, I have not attempted to define any relations for the districts. At this point my ambitions are much more modest: to see if somebody else can draw the boundaries of the districts (most of them have not been drawn yet) and then spell their names correctly, hence my posting of data that would help others in that effort. I don’t have the time on my hands to undertake the drawing of all the districts in Turkmenistan. I have drawn the boundaries of the boroughs and small etraps of Ashgabat city but that is all. The road system is in need of serious updating and my editing has tended to focus on it and the municipalities rather than the districts because roads and cities/towns/villages are more relevant to navigation than are districts, and maps are primarily navigational aids.
Yes, they do tile the country, so far as I know. None overlap, since they are administrative units, each with its own hakim and budget (see the Turkmenistan entry in the OSM wiki for a description of the administrative structure of the country).
I am still in the process of translating the various headers in the document, and just added them for the main header. No, Turkmen is not covered by Google Translate. My embassy has had conversations with both Google and the Turkmenistan Academy of Sciences but so far with no result.