Libya learning maps — source review, 23 October 2026

DISTRICTS
Twenty-two humanitarian reference districts, represented year 2018.
UNITAR-UNOSAT, Libyan Bureau of Statistics, World Food Programme,
Global Logistics Cluster and International Organization for Migration,
via HDX and geoBoundaries gbHumanitarian LBY ADM2 (snapshot 9469f09).
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO.
https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbHumanitarian/LBY/ADM2/
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-lby
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/

This is a district reference exercise, not a claim that Libya has only
twenty-two current municipalities. The dataset also has three larger areas
at ADM1; its twenty-two districts are at ADM2. Boundaries are generalised
by 0.002 degrees. They do not show political or military control.
Source aliases: Tobruk = Al Butnan; Ejdabia = Al Wahat; Zwara = Zuwara /
An Nuqat al Khams; Ubari = Wadi al Hayaa; Sebha = Sabha; Sirt = Sirte;
Almargeb = Al Marqab; Aljfara = Al Jifarah; Azzawya = Zawiya.
Map codes are stable learning identifiers based on familiar district codes.

CITIES
Twenty-four curated city/oasis centres in WGS84 longitude, latitude.
Pins retain real city locations, with a small tolerance for generalised
coastal boundaries. They are not entrances, routes or present access advice.

SEAS
Natural Earth 1:10m marine polygons and land, public domain.
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/
https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/tree/master/geojson
ne_10m_geography_marine_polys.geojson; ne_10m_land.geojson

The full Mediterranean includes its Alboran, Balearic, Ligurian,
Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Cretan waters, the Gulf of Lion,
the Strait of Gibraltar and Dardanelles, reaching the connection with
the separate Sea of Marmara. The Black Sea is excluded. The gulfs of
Sidra and Gabes are separately selectable and removed from the larger
answer polygon so they cannot be hidden beneath it. Islands and land
are subtracted. No sea is cropped to Libya, a camera box or a national
maritime claim. The Gulf of Gabes lies on the neighbouring Tunisian coast.
The camera opens on Libya; panning and zooming out follow the larger water geography.
Offshore answer edges are hidden because these are not physical walls.

LAKES
OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
Fetched 23 October 2026 from the OpenStreetMap map API.
Gaberoun: way 138339368; Mafo: way 268600214.
Waw an Namus: ways 84070285, 84070289, 84070294, 1122575232,
1122575233, 1122575234, 1122575235, 1122575236, 1549755897, 1549755898.
Complete mapped shorelines are retained, including separate crater lakes.
Small lakes require close zooming; they are not artificially inflated.
Shorelines are reference snapshots, not measurements of current levels.
Libya has no permanent natural rivers. The Great Man-Made River is a
groundwater pipeline network and is not drawn as a natural watercourse.

REBUILD
python3 scripts/build-libya-maps.py
Reads scripts/libya-map-source.geojson without network access.
The source snapshot retains original source names, IDs and OSM way IDs.
The global continuation pass is unnecessary: these are already full waters.