Naming streets is an essential but challenging task for us. It might be difficult to generate consensus even at the local level: some might want to use the name of the political leader from the party they are affiliated to; others might prefer to use names reflecting history/culture etc. So it is more than mapping:)
I will try to talk to couple of people if they any suggestion from their past experience naming the streets in Kathmandu. Cheers, Nama On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Prabhas Pokharel < prabhas.pokha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Incredible work everyone.. the level of detail looks amazing. > > Re: names... do the more institutionally connected mappers among us have > any thoughts? Nama ji? Anil ji? > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Aashish Tripathee < > hellowo...@aashishtripathee.com> wrote: > >> I'm really surprised that there are streets without names. Naming it >> ourselves might not be such a bad idea in my opinion but we need to get the >> people living around there use the same name. If we're successful at doing >> that, even if the government keeps the names later on, they'll be bound to >> keep the names we've kept. (Whoa! ) >> >> So, perhaps the challenge is getting people to use the same name that we >> keep because if we keep Aashish Marga somewhere around in Baneshwor (just >> an example) but if it's around in just OSM, that won't be useful to anyone >> at all. Names in OSM must be in-sync with what people use/are used to with. >> Just my opinion though! >> >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Rajeev Amatya <rajeevama...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> We have completed most of our comprehensive mapping in Tinkune-Koteshwor >>> area. Please have a look here: >>> >>> http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=85.34561&lat=27.68357&zoom=17 >>> >>> We will probably finish up with polygons/houses next week. The house >>> polygons are only experimental and we will not spend time on it for other >>> regions. We will now move west to Sankhamul area. >>> >>> We have also tried putting few house names in the map to get an idea >>> about how they are numbered. Seems like they are numbered by taking a >>> distance from a fixed reference point, which I think is not a bad way to go >>> in Kathmandu. While most of this region had street names, I am pretty sure >>> most regions in Lalitpur and Bhaktapur do not have the names. We are adding >>> most of the street names right now from the project that the govt and the >>> EU did some 10 years ago. >>> >>> So, we wanted to start this discussion on how to tackle this issue and >>> whether it is even possible to fix this problem. Is it a good idea to give >>> names ourselves without approval from the govt? The government probably is >>> not gonna do much in the next five years. >>> >>> Let us know if you have any thoughts on this. >>> >>> Rajeev >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "MapKathmandu" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to mapkathma...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mapkathmandu?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> *Aashish Tripathee* >> *Founder Partner* >> *Bwingle Web Solutions <http://bwingle.org/>* >> >> <https://www.facebook.com/bwinglenepal> <https://twitter.com/bwingle> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MapKathmandu" group. >> To post to this group, send email to mapkathma...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mapkathmandu?hl=en. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Prabhas Pokharel > http://twitter.com/prabhasp > US mobile: +1 347 948 7654 > skype/facebook/whatever: prabhasp > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- ______________________________________________________ Nama Raj Budhathoki -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
