Contribute to the project

You don’t need to contact us or go through us to help out with mapping. You can help to map Tajikistan on your own. Join Open Street Map as an editor, take their tutorial and read their how-to instructions and you can start mapping right away - without any GIS or cartography skills needed.

The most useful editing contribution right now (mid-2023) would be to add forests, smaller streams and minor roads country-wide. For areas that need attention, try the Muksu Range in eastern Tajikistan (northwest of the town of Murghob), all areas around Sarez Lake, and the western section of the border with Kyrgyzstan. Also, if you happen to have exact data on village names and locations for lowland areas of Khatlon and Sughd provinces, that would help greatly.

If you have a GPS track for a trail that does not appear on the map, I suggest sending it to Archa Foundation for inclusion in their GPS library.

Satellite imagery is often years out of date, so we appreciate info on destroyed bridges, new bridges, new roads, etcetera (yes, we know about the new mining roads near Sarytag/Saratoq and Margheb). You can also tell us about new guesthouses and camps. The best way to do this (if you are on the ground) is to use the Organic Maps or OsmAnd map app to report a mistake or a suggestion for inclusion on the map. This then appears on the Open Street Maps editing platform for editors to see and fix. You can also contact us directly.