Re: [Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in
Government data is not public domain in India. It's copyrighted and owned by the government. However, government bodies haven't quite figured out the concept of a copyright license, so good luck explaining that to SoI. Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ http://hasgeek.com/ (Sent from my phone) On Sep 30, 2013 7:27 PM, Aditya Nag aditya.nag.2...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I've just now stumbled upon a site from Survey Of India herehttp://www.surveykshan.gov.in. It seems pretty useful and accurate. Can we use it to update data in India? And is it in the Public Domain? ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Mappy hour?
How long are you all in Mumbai? I'm expecting to be there around December 20. Arun, how's the weather in Dharamsala? That's my (potential) next stop after Mumbai. Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ http://hasgeek.com/ On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 at 3:32 PM, Chaitanya waichal wrote: Dear OSMers M not sure if this is the right place but i would request you all to have a look at pathajalp.com (http://www.pathajalp.com) , based entirely on OpenStreetMap.ITs a website that allows you to rate roads..I am from Kolhapur,Maharashtra and have been single handedly working on this site. In order to implement it i ve had to use various technologies including Osm2po,Pgrouting, etc. Chaitanya On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:04 PM, paramvi...@gmail.com (mailto:paramvi...@gmail.com) wrote: Great! Russell, what do you use for adding POIs on OSM? I mean, phone and software? Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Russell Nelson russnel...@gmail.com (mailto:russnel...@gmail.com) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:27:17 To: talk-intalk-in@openstreetmap.org (mailto:talk-in@openstreetmap.org) Reply-To: talk-in@openstreetmap.org (mailto:talk-in@openstreetmap.org) Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Mappy hour? ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org (mailto:Talk-in@openstreetmap.org) http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org (mailto:Talk-in@openstreetmap.org) http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org (mailto: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] Fwd: [datameet] NSDI Questionnaire
Perhaps of interest to this list. Begin forwarded message: From: Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org Date: 11 July 2011 6:36:21 PM GMT+05:30 To: Datameet datam...@googlegroups.com Subject: [datameet] NSDI Questionnaire Reply-To: datam...@googlegroups.com Dear all, The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (which falls under the Department of Science and Technology) is conducting a survey of GeoProfessionals and General Users who use geospatial data. I would urge all those involved with OpenStreetMaps and those who believe in the benefits of open geospatial data to please a) fill out the appropriate questionnaire (available in .doc format), and b) send this out to others who would care and ask them to do the same. I feel it is an opportunity to let the government know about the numbers using open mapping as well as non-profit endeavours in this space. For professionals/contributors: http://goo.gl/5fBFv For general public/users: http://goo.gl/o8r1z Cheers, Pranesh -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] bing imagery
On 02-Dec-2010, at 12:22 PM, krish wrote: I am pretty much not yet able to digest any news that Microsoft will do anything for a community without having backend plans to make something out of it that will add value to their intellectual property. Just like everyone else? I like the new Microsoft. They've acknowledged* that they are now the underdog that can only survive by taking community interests to heart. * The OS/Office sales side of Microsoft doesn't appear to have received the memo. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Custom styled OSM map
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: I've been playing around with a new tool called maperitivehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitivelately which renders osm data on the fly and allows you to specifiy custom map rules. I'm developing a map style which is a lot more cleaner than the default mapnik one, you can check out the preview of the style here http://www.flickr.com/photos/arunganesh/5104440951/ Pretty! All this needs is a more prominent colour for water bodies. How would it look with a greater road density? Kiran ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] BusRoutes.in
I guess the BTIS guys are the best bet for this data. Pandian, care to help? -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: Jace, to make it as usable as the Chennai versionhttp://busroutes.in/chennai/route/25G/, not much. Just a simple database with [Route, Stage1, Stage2 ... StageN]http://mtcbus.org/Routes.asp?cboRouteCode=S25Gsubmit=Searchfor each route. But then to be quite honest, although the site is informative, i wouldnt rate it very high as an effective planning tool. Its not possible to give usable route suggestions without factoring in scheduling/frequency data. And right now, OSM is just used as a background layer, what would really be awesome if we could make use of the OSM data itself to make things more powerful. I think we have shifted to postgresql, so this might be possible if there is someone willing to help out with the coding. The site is powered by django/python and the source is available at http://github.com/yuvipanda/wtfimb/network If anyone wants to have a go at hacking, do let me know. -- http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ 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] GPS for sale
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: What i do is toss it in my backpack and connect to via blue tooth using gpsmid on my phone. I have almost always got a fix with it sitting in my backpack and had no reason to take it out, except for switching it off while going indoors to save battery. So it is pretty much fire and forget. I took a train from Hyderabad to Bangalore last evening. My Garmin Forerunner (a wrist-mounted GPS) had accidentally switched on just before I got onto the train and recorded the entire route until Bangalore -- packed up in my bag, under the seat, within the metal shell of the train. The battery's rated for 10 hours. It lasted 13, despite the obviously very poor signal, and the trace it made aligns perfectly with your OSM Landsat trace and with Google Maps. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/40589680 http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jace/traces/763994 I'm impressed. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] A-GPS as GPS
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:43 AM, H.S.Rai h...@raiandrai.com wrote: Is it will GPS or A-GPS? It seems this much quick fix is only possible through A-GPS. With you plan for GPRS, use of A-GPS may be free. It is AGPS. The assisting is done via Google's location services, which incidentally is what Firefox also uses for its geolocation API. Here's their explanation: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/ Has A-GPS and GPS, A-GPS work only through GPRS, and not through WiFi. That is correct. On Android, your cell tower information is automatically sent to Google to determine location (this is a preference setting and is turned off by default), so the phone always knows where it is. If you use Google Maps on Nokia, it uses Google's location services. If you're using Nokia's map app, they may have their own service provider. Of late, I've noticed that I'm getting geolocation on my home wifi network too. I suspect this is because Google has recorded a strong correlation between my GPRS location and my wifi SSID. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] A-GPS as GPS
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Ajay Shah ajays...@mayin.org wrote: And this works in India also? I.e. google knows all the cell towers of India? Yes. Works perfectly everywhere I've tried, India and out. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] A-GPS as GPS
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:20 PM, H.S.Rai h...@raiandrai.com wrote: For mapping mobiles with GPS are seems to be good resource. My question is: It seems that Android will rule and Linux bases mobiles may not become a reality. Can A-GPS be used as GPS? I have an Android phone. I do not pay anything for GPS service. It is free, gets a fix within 15-20 seconds, and typically gives me 4 metre accuracy in the city. My old Garmin eTrex Legend takes at least 2 minutes to get a fix, 5 or more if in a new location, and gives me 8-20 metre accuracy. The Android phone is so good as a GPS that I bought an extended battery to go with it. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Tagging roads with median
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:23 PM, PlaneMad theplane...@gmail.com wrote: I have been mapping it as two parallel oneways almost mainly for the purpose of routing. I have also found that it makes it much easier to follow the road pattern especially at complicated junctions/interchanges (see hebbalhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=13.04316lon=77.58997zoom=17layers=B000FTFor hudson circlehttp://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.96601lon=77.58582zoom=17layers=B000FTF). It doesnt make sense to do this for each and every road with a median though, but only for the arterial thoroughfares. That makes sense, but we need a way to deal with quirks like the double traffic lights. Also, would the relation tags be a useful way to do this? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:restriction ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Indian Slum Mapping
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: The ideological assumption of OSM is that open sharing of information is going to strengthen the unrepresented. Yes, in practice, definitely it takes effort to make open data accessible and empowering to all ... that's why a 3 week project in Kibera has grown to a 6+ month project. The empowerment touches on so many issues ... especially economic and educational ... and that's something we're starting to look at. But ultimately, my belief is that power is more distributed the more things are out in the open. Mikel, is Robert Neuwirth [1][2] still based in Kibera? It'll be interesting to know what he thinks of Map Kibera. [1] http://squattercity.blogspot.com/ [2] http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Cities-Billion-Squatters-Urban/dp/0415933196 ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Bangalore Maps
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:43 PM, निशांत / Nishant nishantsharma.in@ gmail.com wrote: I have anyway, put up the Garmin image for whole India at http://unmukti.in/corp/osmgarmindownloads As it uses the extract from cloudemade, it is updated as and when new extract is available. Nishant, The all India map is too large for older Garmin devices such as my eTrex Legend. Could you or some other kind soul setup extracts for a city or state at a time? I did this for Bangalore once, but can't remember how. Kiran ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Indian Slum Mapping
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Looks like some folks are simply going into Google Maps to trace their slum boundaries http://blog.sdinet.co.za/?p=78 GPS Babel will convert from KML to GPX, so one could trace in Google Earth and then re-trace in JOSM. *bling!* *lightbulb* Hmm... ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Indian Slum Mapping
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:32 PM, PlaneMad theplane...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't we have a landuse=slum tag for these areas? I would have thought that it would have surfaced after the Kibera mapping For some reason, this makes me a little uncomfortable. We learnt via the Freemap project that slum rehabilitation is the tool of the property developer against the city corporation. Since corporations allow construction of new buildings on previously unavailable land provided the construction is for the purpose of rehabilitating a slum, property developers have an incentive to encourage the creation of new slums (in marshland in Mumbai) and get them recognised as such -- and in a few years, acquire rights to this new slum land. Tagging a slum on OSM will likely do nothing to change the situation on the ground, but it makes one wonder exactly what sort of tool the map is, and who holds it. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] veg/non-veg
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: food=veg - green circle food=nveg - red circle results are not very impressive. I need higher zoom levels, but so far have not found out how to go beyond a zoom of 18. Any clues? The red and green circles are India-specific, and particularly poor choices as they are often indistinguishable to deuteranomalic folks like me. Perhaps some other icons? ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] new tag for auto stand
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: autorikshaw stands are unique to India. I propose having a tag: amenity=autostand meter=yes/no the symbol could be a yellow auto - showing a meter where meters are in use, and without a meter where they are not used. What should the default be? meter or no meter? Chennai is rumoured to have a couple of auto stands where the meter is used - would love to see them on the map ;-) In the interest of internationalisation, shouldn't this be a derivative of whatever is used to denote a taxi-stand? Something like: amenity=taxistand transport=autorickshaw While autorickshaws are an Indian pecularity, other countries have very similar transport options by name of tuk-tuks, jeepneys, tricycles, pilots, etc. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] 'Maps for Making Change' in India
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: they are aware of us - if they needed us they would have asked. It's standard policy in such cases to let interested parties apply instead of actively seeking them out, because that ensures their interest. I have ongoing projects with CIS so can't do this, but anyone else can. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] veg and non-veg
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Guillaume Audirac guillaume.audi...@gmail.com wrote: Moreover, I am not sure of the relevance of the non-vegetarian attribute. All the non-vegetarian restaurants I know propose vegetarian meals. You'll find military restaurants along highways all over India that are non-veg only. Military is a codeword for no vegetarian food. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Local Chapter for India
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Subhodip Biswas subhodipbis...@gmail.comwrote: Is there any process going on for a Local Chapter in India yet? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters Would love to hear from the community. Mikel reminded me of this again when I wrote to him about the workshops. We should do it. I'll have the bandwidth for it in late October when I start working on the Feb workshop series plans. Anyone else up to it? ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
[Talk-in] Bangalore vs Bengaluru
OSM's map of Bangalore currently identifies the city as Bengaluru. Wikipedia's article on the city is still named Bangalore. The discussion page there justifies it on the ground that the city's renaming is not yet official. All major newspapers in the city continue to identify their editions as Bangalore. Given that, shouldn't OSM also list it as Bangalore? Like Wikipedia, OSM needs NPOV in such matters. If no one has an objection, I will rename the appropriate nodes. We can switch to Bengaluru when it becomes official. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
[Talk-in] OpenStreetMap workshops
Hello all, I just applied to NLnet (http://nlnet.nl/) for funding for a round of OpenStreetMap workshops in Feb 2010, in the line of the Feb 2008 workshops. We will hear back in four weeks on whether we're getting the grant. I've made a wiki page for updates (nothing there yet): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Workshops/2010 Here's the proposal I sent NLnet: http://bit.ly/3iyC4i And here's the budget: http://bit.ly/jza3l Due to the rather short notice -- I was referred to NLnet less than a week ago and their funding deadline was today -- I was unable to consult this list for advice, but did speak to Pradeep, Schuyler and Mikel. Pradeep hopes we'll be able to host an Indian edition of State of the Map, so I mentioned that in the post-workshops roadmap. Comments appreciated. Best, Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
[Talk-in] WhiteHouse.gov using OpenStreetMap
http://www.whitehouse.gov/change/ Discussion is on at irc://irc.oftc.net/#geo -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Names of cities in some local language
2009/4/27 Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com That node has a Hindi name as it's default name http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/245774579 At present there's no user setting to change this .. it's only changeable in the database. As said previous, if someone is interested, I can sketch out some of the technical work needed to implement this. I just edited it using Potlatch, so now it has the English name. Not sure I understand what you mean. Do you mean an API for choosing from the localised names for the default display? -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] Mumbai
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM, PlaneMad theplane...@gmail.com wrote: i beleive the mumbai freemap.in data is being imported into osm. dont know what is the status of that is though. The Mumbai Freemap data is sadly an outline of plots, not roads. It cannot be used unless someone traces over all the gaps in their data -- since the gaps represent the roads. Shekhar, do let us know if this has changed. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] February trip
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:06 PM, PlaneMad theplane...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry folks, as much as id love to meet you all, coming to bangalore is out of the question as i have some important project work in college this week. if you guys can post this in the wiki, i can spread the word around and you can get some more interested people joining in. increasing awareness of osm is more important than me being there :) Arun, I'm in Chennai tomorrow and more or less have the evening spare. Care to meet up? [Yes, I know what day it is. Just pushing my luck. ;-) ] -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] February trip
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:00 PM, PlaneMad theplane...@gmail.com wrote: sure, ill be free in the evening. i have college tomo due to last week's shutdown, so will be back into the city around 6. anyone else want to join in? Cool. My number's 99452 35123. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
