3. Global mapping rules

Creating Yandex.Maps is a big responsibility: the roads you draw will be used to plot routes; organizations you add will end up in search results; and buildings, structures, and other map items will serve as landmarks in a particular area.

That's why YME authors need to follow certain rules:

• Rules that apply to all users and all YME items (for example, rules about how to select items for mapping):

  3.1. General rule.

• Rules for working with items of specific categories (for example, rules for drawing building outlines or naming motorways).

  These rules may apply to all items regardless of the country, or they may differ depending on the country.

  • The rules common to all countries are described in this section (3. Global mapping rules):

    • 3.2. Administrative division
    • 3.3. Roads
    • 3.4. Buildings
    • 3.5. Addresses
    • 3.6. Locations
    • 3,7. Territories
    • 3.8. Road infrastructure
    • 3.9. Vegetation
    • 3.10. Hydrography
    • 3.11. Relief
    • 3.12. Transport: Railways
    • 3.13. Transport: rapid
    • 3.14. Transport: land
    • 3.15. Transport: air
    • 3.16. Transport: water
    • 3.17. Fences

  • The second (different for different countries) are given in the subsections of 4. Rules for mapping regional and grouped by country:

    • 4.1. Mapping rules: Russia and other countries in the USSR
    • 4.2. Mapping rules: France
    • 4.3. Mapping rules: Poland
    • 4.4. Mapping rules: Turkey
    • 4.5. Mapping rules: Serbia

The rules are regularly updated and clarified. Changes to the rules are reported in YME Chat and list of changes.

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