[Talk-in] Geospatial data and Data Protection Bill
Hello all, I came across this article[1] on proposed Data Protection Authority considering geospatial data under its ambit. If someone has more details, please do share. While comments to Sri Krishna Committee is closed, there is still some time before bill gets tabled and passed and it would be good to have comments passed on, so one doesn't need to do another #SaveTheMap. [1] https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/geospatial-data-too-may-be-regulated-by-data-protection-bill-officials/story-4XIW3ThVdWigwKfm1eqeLN.html -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] How to get all missing street names for chennai?
Thanks Aruna for the queries. On 4 April 2017 at 15:56, Paul Normanwrote: > > I'd stay away from translation. name:* tags are for names in different > languages, not translations of names. I do get the difference. Which is why, all the options (Wikidata, Google translate, Yet to be built self learning Suggestion provider) are there as suggestions. I firmly believe and have been only proven right when I am seeing nodes of places I have never been to. Unlike mapping with satellites, naming must ideally be done by person who has visited / has a street sign board as reference. But for usable local maps, there is a need to localize quickly and these assisted options could improve the pace. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Use MapRoulette to improve OSM - India data
On 15 March 2017 at 19:22, Naveen Franciswrote: > One more task > - Add wikidata tags for Indian Highways, it has been add for about 100 > primary highways. > Would it be easier to run through scripts to update the tags? Since these are far more structured pieces of info to which just a key,value pair needs to be added, would it be easier to use something like google sheets + python which I have been using to upload manually verified translations? The script[1] currently supports addition of k,v pair for name:ta to nodes and ways, given a csv. Can be easily modified to add wikidata tags. Thoughts? [1] https://github.com/srikanthlogic/osm-ta/blob/master/osm-csv-names-loader.py -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages
On 7 April 2015 at 11:32, Sajjad Anwarwrote: > Aruna, we can use the Wikidata to get a first pass of the translation and > then present the spreadsheet view for someone to eyeball and add missing? > I got a spreadsheet view[0] to this using the OverpassToGoogleSheets appscript[1] (which I plan to make a complete add-on) to give spreadsheet view. Once the ability to generate spreadsheet or any language / area combination is complete, use the sheet to build a HTML microtask UI where user can translate (with a small map view to give context). Eventually, we could build something envisioned at Map Translation Interface[3]. [0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1imONog35BeDTEuwRPgrRRDAF7pvbSHs1Ryv-18yfOaQ/edit#gid=201371839 [1] https://github.com/srikanthlogic/tangrams-indic/blob/gh-pages/Translator-Tools/appscript/OverpassToGoogleSheets.gs [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Translation_Interface -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
[Talk-in] Indic Maps using Mapzen
Hi all, I have added a language selector option to Mapzen Tangram maps[1] and made it support 12 languages[2]. We are figuring a way to add India borders after which these / similar maps could power openstreetmap.in in all Indic languages. [1] https://mapzen.com/products/tangram/ [2] https://srikanthlogic.github.io/tangrams-indic/ [3] http://blog.srik.me/2016/10/04/indic-maps-using-mapzen-tangram-openstreetmap/ -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Use of official names for cities
Some related news (Kerala towns mainly though) http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/government-approves-new-names-of-25-towns-175540 Srikanth ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Extracting road information from particular cities.
Hi, You could use XAPI[1] and query with different tag types.Visit www.openstreetmap.org and zoom into place of interest and click on the export tab, you get the coords for bounding box. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 22:25, bharath vissapragada bharathvissapragada1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi pradeep, Thanks for replying.. Can you let me know how to find the bounding box attributes for cities .. .. Also how to use this bounding box .. can you give a simple example .. I am new to this osm data .. So Iam finding it a bit tough to process it .. Kindly bear my simple doubts ! Thanks in anticipation, On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Pradeep B V pradee...@gmail.com wrote: Cant you just use the bounding box for Mumbai and get all data? On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:11 PM, bharath vissapragada bharathvissapragada1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We are trying to extract the road/street network for each city in the Indian osm dataset. We are writing our own parser for this . We are trying to use the relation,way,node tags to do this . But I am unable to understand how to find all the roads for city for eg. Mumbai.?? Do I need to see Mumbai in the relation tag ?? This doesn't seem to be working as the parser is unable to find relations with Mumbai (just a few are found). Are these datasets already available?? (lat,long info of each road..) Please help me in this regard ... Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] BusRoutes.in
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: Arun, what would it take to make BusRoutes.in usable in Bangalore? What data do you need? Hi Jace, We require the basic stage data of all the routes. If its in a machine readable format like csv or in some structured format, we could dump the data.Entering data through django-admin is painful even for a single route. This in first place is not present or very scattered (like praja.in) contains usable volvo routes info and btis.in has some 3 year old(?) data. Then comes the challenge of mapping the stage to lat-longs. This not just requires the map data (which is decent enough in bangalore), but also few people with some good knowledge of the city.The person should be able to correct any mistakes in the data(data from corporation will be erroneous). Assuming we do this bangalore needs its own customization because of its one-ways.We might require to create 2 routes (UP and DOWN) for quite a few routes and the routing algo should be modified to consider this. We did not make any attempt to try this for bangalore as we were told BMTC would release its data under GTFS soon (Its actually ~8 months now and we havent seen any light). We can probably try creating the instance and feed data manually (create csv ourselves for minimal routes and give a shot) -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] BusRoutes.in
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: I guess the BTIS guys are the best bet for this data. Pandian, care to help? I guess the best data is available with BMTC (for the routes using the PIS funded by JnNURM) and is also in usable form, since it has geocoded stops and is also direction aware.If anyone has access to BMTC and can get it, nothing like it. -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Renumbering National Highways
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways have released the new scientific numbering scheme[1]. We need to decide if we should move to the new numbering form or not. Also i think its better to have the old numbers as well. Probably we can have ref_old and ref_new keys.Now we have a totally new dimension to highways.(As though, we didnt have enough problems with it) I have been trying to figure out some kind of rationale behind the rationalized number scheme but couldnt figure out any. The pdf is quite a bit of a muddle at the moment and we should probably wait for a better document that has the old vs new numbers so that we dont incorrectly number the roads. This post[1] describes the rationale. Even numbered highways will be in north-south direction and odd numbers would in east west direction.2 digit highways are major ones and 3 digit ones will be offshoots. The order of numbering starts from north to south.So NH 13 would be some where in north in the east west direction and and NH 944 will be an offshoot on NH44 which runs in north-south direction,somewhere in south i guess. We need to analyse more on the data to verify if pattern followed is uniform and truely scientific. Of course there are certain mistakes like it never says what is number of the Krishnagiri-Bangalore which forms part of both NS-corridor and golden quad. It was incorrectly tagged as a state, i corrected it to locality but i guess it would take time for it to show up in the low zoom tiles.-- Thanks. So vandals have started appearing. Nice! So we have grown to reach masses or what :) [1] http://www.indiamike.com/india/buses-automobiles-motorcycles-and-bicycles-f117/new-national-highway-numbers-t110066/ -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
[Talk-in] Renumbering National Highways
Hi all, The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways have released the new scientific numbering scheme[1]. We need to decide if we should move to the new numbering form or not. Also i think its better to have the old numbers as well. Probably we can have ref_old and ref_new keys.Now we have a totally new dimension to highways.(As though, we didnt have enough problems with it) On a different note, when i visited openstreetmap.in to check if someone has updated to new numbering scheme, i was shocked by seeing Sudhama Nagar replacing Bangalore.[2] I went and checked the data, sudhama nagar was perfectly normal and marked as a locality in Bangalore, which it is. OSM site displays this properly.Any idea on what could be the problem? [1] http://dorth.gov.in/writereaddata/sublinkimages/finaldoc6143316640.pdf [2] http://openstreetmap.in/?zoom=7lat=13.12871lon=80.04694layers=B -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
[Talk-in] GPSMid -- J2ME Application
All, Came across this awesome java mobile app GPSMid [1] after planemad tweeted about it. This app can take OSM data and hold it in the form of midlet and provide routing. It can position using Cell ID. So positioning / navigation on any phone which has j2me support / some memory without GPS / GPRS. For folks with GPRS, it can also live edit OSM which i think will be of immense use to us to quickly add a POI / name an unnamed street. One needs to create the midlet for the area they are interested from planet.osm file / XAPI requests using osm2gpsmid [2] (fairly simple) and install them on the mobile to start mapping on their mobiles. (I thought it was only possible by the folks with iPhone and mapzen, but now poorer folks too can :) ) [1] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net [2] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/osmtogpsmid.html -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] GPSMid -- J2ME Application
Well you cannot still add ways. It can just add POIs, edit the properties of existing ways. GPS compliments this app well too. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Arunmozhi arunthe...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you so much . . . This is like a holy grail for people like me who cannot get their hands on gps devices On 5/20/10, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: All, Came across this awesome java mobile app GPSMid [1] after planemad tweeted about it. This app can take OSM data and hold it in the form of midlet and provide routing. It can position using Cell ID. So positioning / navigation on any phone which has j2me support / some memory without GPS / GPRS. For folks with GPRS, it can also live edit OSM which i think will be of immense use to us to quickly add a POI / name an unnamed street. One needs to create the midlet for the area they are interested from planet.osm file / XAPI requests using osm2gpsmid [2] (fairly simple) and install them on the mobile to start mapping on their mobiles. (I thought it was only possible by the folks with iPhone and mapzen, but now poorer folks too can :) ) [1] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net [2] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/osmtogpsmid.html -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL -- Sent from my mobile device ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Mapping the Indian Railway network using high resolution Landsat imagery
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: well, I travelled from coimbatore-pollachi-dindigul-madurai, the tracks were there - but no trains. broadgauge conversion is going on. How do we map this? I remember seeing some under-construction attribute for fly overs / roads. I think this can be used. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] latest data on site- attn HS Rai
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: hi, I finally managed to ssh to our server and update the data - hopefully Prof's well is now available to the public. Hi Kenneth, index.html has a broken link to quicklinks.html though i have checked in the same. Either it was not pulled(which i hope is not, assuming you have pulled everything) or some other issue on web server. Can you please look into it? -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] url-redirection-for-cities
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:32 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:06 AM, issues-nore...@bitbucket.org wrote: http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/osmindia/issue/7/url-redirection-for-cities Since we have a nice .in domain, can we set up a URL redirection something like openstreetmap.in/chennai -- zooms to http://www.openstreetmap.in/?zoom=11lat=13.06769lon=80.22032layers=B we can have URLs for major cities and well mapped towns to start with. We can have it for states too. When search function implemented, this one and Quick link (presently on main page, having links to Ooty and Chennai) will become redundant. No.I guess fancy URLs will help web crawlers which can give us more visibility on search and give hits. I am working on the quick links page which will contain links to cities / states and places that are well mapped and might interest people. Ex:- Coimbatore Golf Course or Tirupati Hills. This can also be a place for visibility where other people in the community can know what has been mapped well. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] url-redirection-for-cities
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: http://bestofosm.org/ We want to have best of OSMI Yes, definitely. My current plan for quick links is to have major cities, all places mentioned at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India#Mapping_progress and other towns,All States at appropariate zoom level, universities(IITM, GNDEC,NITC, anymore?), Best of OSMI [any well mapped area which is left out above] Please do post it here if you can think of anything else. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Default view of OSMI
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Tuesday 01 Dec 2009 1:24:44 pm H.S.Rai wrote: Please set default zoom level 2, or better if , it can be: http://xlquest.net/?zoom=5amp;lat=21.94305amp;lon=80.37598amp;layers=B i.e. zoom level 5, India centred. no idea how to do that - will try to find out. I guess lat,long, zoom has to be defaulted on javascript present in index.html var lat=21.94305; var lon=80.37538 var zoom=5; I am not very sure, give a try. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Border Disclaimer
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Friday 27 Nov 2009 10:06:01 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 27 Nov 2009 10:00:36 am Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: Can we have a link to detailed disclaimer page on http://xlquest.net Personally, I would like to have the map in present form with a disclaimer. Thoughts please. I will put a disclaimer - I just saw 'Azad Kashmir' on the map. btw - where is the disclaimer? or do you have the text for a disclaimer? Sorry the disclaimer is on the Template box and additional notes below. Put it out on your source control. We can work it out and put one. You must be able to get a better one being a lawyer. The frontiers depicted on the Indian maps in s*Wikipedia*/s OSM are from a neutral point of view and may differ from official government map of India,s *Pakistan and China.*/s Please consult local laws governing publication of maps before usage. On a slightly related note, Since the map is editable by anyone and we may not have the time to look at OSM data day in and day out, we must put some additional disclaimers about editable map so disclaimer will be complete covering an act of editing by some chinese guy / govt editing OSM to claim arunachal pradesh. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Border Disclaimer
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: hows this: The frontiers depicted on this map come from the OSM database*[1]* and differ from the official government map of India. We are making efforts to depict the official boundaries. Until such time please consult the authorities before using those parts of the map which vary from the official boundaries. Users may note that since this map is editabl*e* by anyone, at times there will be inaccuracies caused by spammers and other anti-social elements. *-- XLQUEST team / OSM Contributors in India and link to OSM page? *(Clarifies We, Things where a foundation will help) *[1] location to OSM database * Thats good. added few updates to it. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://www.google.com/profiles/srik.lak ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Border Disclaimer
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Friday 27 Nov 2009 11:51:39 am Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: *-- XLQUEST team / OSM Contributors in India and link to OSM page? *(Clarifies We, Things where a foundation will help) *[1] location to OSM database * Thats good. added few updates to it. please see my other post regarding boundaries in this thread - if we show the official boundaries, we do not need a disclaimer Agreed.It would still be nice to have this part atleast. Users may note that since this map is editably by anyone, at times there will be inaccuracies caused by spammers and other anti-social elements. Irrespective of borders, we can still have spammers cause damage. Preparing for digital wars :P -- Regards Srikanth.L http://www.google.com/profiles/srik.lak ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Party howto document
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Thursday 26 Nov 2009 10:08:56 am Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: Even when you have instrument, it is ideal to actually map with the gps data collected *on the same day* to get a better map.Something we experienced through E-City Mapping party / Hosur Mapping party.Output of E-City map is much better. So ideally any mapping party should have minimum of 2 hours where participants map them out. This way new comers to party also get to learn how to map. that is true - but the point I am trying to emphasise is that mapping is a daily activity. Every time you look at the map you can add something - a dustbin, a lamp post, a speed breaker on the road. Agree. Evolving the wiki way through incremental improvements is ideal instead of mapping once and leaving it. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://www.google.com/profiles/srik.lak ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] anything during this FOSS.IN?
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: Not sure if anyone has submitted anything, and am also not sure what could be covered in a talk or a workout. If you are going to be at the meeting, we can do an informal BoF set up then and there. Mini Mapping Party? NIMHANS is blank on OSM. Not sure if it will get accepted though. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://www.google.com/profiles/srik.lak ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] OSM Mapping party
Hello all, It was nice mapping around E City.I have added post event summary herehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Electronics_City_Mini_Mapping_Party_August_2009#Post_Event_Summary. The difference we made todayhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Bangalore_ECity_09Aug2009_Mapping_Party.png. Great stuff, hope to see you all in the next mapping party. Cheers, Srikanth L On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Mallikarjun Javali mallikarjun.jav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, here are few photos. http://picasaweb.google.co.in/mallikarjun.javali/ECityMappingParty# Mallik On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Pradeep B V pradee...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya all, Thanks for making it to the mapping party. (Sameer please pass this mail to Abhinav too). It was definitely fun mapping eCity with you all today. The GPX files have been uploaded and and can be seen here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pradeep%20B%20V/traces/473720 and http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pradeep%20B%20V/traces/473717 When you get time please do maps these on Potlach (by clicking on the edit link next to the traces) or on JOSM. See ya all on the next mapping party on 22nd August 2009 at Koramangala. - Pradeep B V ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in