[Talk-bd] Thank you and congratulations OSM Bangladesh!

[Sajjad Anwar]

Dear Tasauf, Ahasan and the entire SOTM 2019 Team -

I wanted to congratulate all of you for organizing SOTM Asia 2019.
Even though I wasn't able to make it, I saw the tweets and posts of
Facebook. It seemed like a well attended event with lots of
excitement.

Thank you so much for hosting the OSM community this year. It would
not have been possible without your hard work.

As you close this year, it'll be great to read any specific feedback
on organising SOTM that may be helpful for the team in Sri Lanka.
Looking forward.

Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-in] tasks.openstreetmap.in is down

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Hi everyone,

Sorry about the delay to respond to this issue - we've all been away and
pretty busy. We fixed just now (
https://github.com/osm-in/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/10). You should now
be able to login and continue mapping http://tasks.openstreetmap.in/

Happy mapping!

Cheers,
Sajjad

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 3:35 AM Craig Dsouza  wrote:

> Yep, I'm having the same issue at login
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:25 PM Nikhil VJ  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Apologies if this is a repeat post.. I'm not seeing these mailing lists
>> often.
>>
>> The India HOT Tasking Manager site http://tasks.openstreetmap.in is not
>> working when we try to login. Getting a generic error message
>>
>> > "The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
>> unable to complete your request."
>>
>> And at some places, advertisement popups are spawning, there might be
>> some malware scripts at play.
>>
>> A fellow mapper who had been participating in our project
>>  there just wrote to me about
>> it.
>>
>> Other tasking manager sites I checked are up and running properly.
>>
>>
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Re: [Talk-in] Kerala PWD: GIS Based Road Information System

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Hey Naveen,

ORMA could work. I'm leading the project for Development Seed (
http://developmentseed.org/). Happy to hear out what you have in mind and
see if it works for your usecase. At the moment, it's pretty tied to what
we use in the Philippines and Vietnam. Want to drop me a line off-list?

Sajjad

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Naveen Francis  wrote:

> I had talked with him, he is looking for some open system which can add
> new data (SH and MDRs ) from the field.
>
> Is open roads a good option?
> https://github.com/orma
> Anyone knows how good open roads?
>
> On 1 March 2018 at 07:13, Naveen Francis  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Kerala PWD Executive Engineer Mr. Biju G R had developed GIS Based Road
>> Information System.
>> http://103.35.198.65:8085/kpwd.gis/
>>
>> The website has the following data:-
>> NH, SH and MDR data.
>> Proposed Hill and Coastal HIghway for Kerala.
>> Excellent Water bodies data.
>> Junctions, Main centers, Bridges data.
>>
>> He developed the new application himself
>> He can be contacted through eeit@kerala.gov.in.
>> His Number is 9746097407 <097460%2097407>
>>
>> Data was developed during KSTP 2007 and it was in cold storage past 11
>> years.
>> It was not published publicly.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Naveen Francis
>>
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Re: [Talk-in] [datameet] How does OSM store its data

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Hey Nikhil,

OSM uses a PostgreSQL database as the main data store, along with PostGIS
extension for geometries. The tags are stored in key and value columns and
uses hstore, which makes it easy to add new ones without having to modify
the table schema. You can read about the database schema and infrastructure
here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Database

Overpass is independent of the above infrastructure. It reads from the
replication files and builds a binary on-disk database. More about Overpass
here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API

Also, you should join the OSM Talk-in mailing list if you haven't!
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Sajjad

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Nikhil VJ  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to learn how OpenStreetmap stores and manages its data, plus how
> Overpass Turbo extracts it.
>
> I find the key-value pair system fascinating (variable fields, organic
> building up of data) and want to replicate that elsewhere. Just the data
> storing part.. don't want to generate map tiles etc.
>
> Any pointers? Any place I should ask?
>
> For those interested, here's a link to the project I have in mind:
> Crowdsourcing-Map-based-data
> 
>
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Re: [Talk-in] OSM Shapefile of Indian version of the borders according to the existing law

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey Ashim -

It's a rather a difficult process if you want to create a shapefile from
OSM with adjusted borders. openstreetmap.in makes the changes using a
custom cartography instead of altering the data itself.

If you're looking for a shapefile with the right borders, have you looked
at http://projects.datameet.org/maps/states/ ?
You could use this as a starting point, and merge other features need from
OSM.

Hope that helps!

Sajjad

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Ashim Kapoor  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I was reading this:
>
> https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/49587/indias-admini
> strative-boundary-issue
>
> The above says : Custom tiles with the Indian version of the borders
> according to the existing law is already available on
> http://openstreetmap.in/
>
> 
>
> 
> The above looks like an OKAY map since the disputed regions are shown
> correctly ( at least to me as a beginner in mapping) How can I get the
> shapefile of the above map? When I click on data, it gives me the link as :
>
> http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/india-latest.osm.pbf
>
> When I download and open the above the disputed borders do not show up
> correctly. How can I get the shapefile of data as displayed in the map on
> http://openstreetmap.in ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Ashim
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Re: [Talk-in] SOTM Asia 2018, Bangalore - first meeting.

[Sajjad Anwar]

Of course I mean Thursday, *December 14*, 5pm-6pm IST.
Looking forward!

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Sajjad Anwar <sajja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for filling out the doodle! Looking at the calendar and asking a
> few people to move things around the best time is Thursday, December 13,
> 5p-6pm IST. Here's the Google Hangout link https://plus.google.com/
> hangouts/_/calendar/c2FqamFka21AZ21haWwuY29t.6m57vgavqq5ooiijheakjqo3qf?
> authuser=0
>
> Talk to you all tomorrow!
>
> Sajjad
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Sajjad Anwar <sajja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> We've a lot to work through over the next few months for the next edition
>> of State of the Map Asia in Bangalore. I'd like to get together whoever is
>> interested in helping us organise together sometime later this week on a
>> Google Hangout. It'll be amazing if you can mark your availability on this
>> doodle https://doodle.com/poll/vtgph22g55cxv8mp
>>
>> We'd like to form a local organising committee first - who are based in
>> Bangalore, and can support logistics. And those who are outside the city
>> can help us coordinate program and other non operational areas.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to asking organisers of last year to talk for a few
>> minutes and see what we should better this year. As soon as we find a time,
>> I'll send out the hangout link.
>>
>> Looking forward.
>>
>> Sajjad
>>
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Re: [Talk-in] SOTM Asia 2018, Bangalore - first meeting.

[Sajjad Anwar]

Thank you for filling out the doodle! Looking at the calendar and asking a
few people to move things around the best time is Thursday, December 13,
5p-6pm IST. Here's the Google Hangout link
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/c2FqamFka21AZ21haWwuY29t.6m57vgavqq5ooiijheakjqo3qf?authuser=0

Talk to you all tomorrow!

Sajjad

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Sajjad Anwar <sajja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> We've a lot to work through over the next few months for the next edition
> of State of the Map Asia in Bangalore. I'd like to get together whoever is
> interested in helping us organise together sometime later this week on a
> Google Hangout. It'll be amazing if you can mark your availability on this
> doodle https://doodle.com/poll/vtgph22g55cxv8mp
>
> We'd like to form a local organising committee first - who are based in
> Bangalore, and can support logistics. And those who are outside the city
> can help us coordinate program and other non operational areas.
>
> I'm looking forward to asking organisers of last year to talk for a few
> minutes and see what we should better this year. As soon as we find a time,
> I'll send out the hangout link.
>
> Looking forward.
>
> Sajjad
>
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[Talk-in] SOTM Asia 2018, Bangalore - first meeting.

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey everyone,

We've a lot to work through over the next few months for the next edition
of State of the Map Asia in Bangalore. I'd like to get together whoever is
interested in helping us organise together sometime later this week on a
Google Hangout. It'll be amazing if you can mark your availability on this
doodle https://doodle.com/poll/vtgph22g55cxv8mp

We'd like to form a local organising committee first - who are based in
Bangalore, and can support logistics. And those who are outside the city
can help us coordinate program and other non operational areas.

I'm looking forward to asking organisers of last year to talk for a few
minutes and see what we should better this year. As soon as we find a time,
I'll send out the hangout link.

Looking forward.

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[Talk-in] State of the Map Asia 2017 Conference Report

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey everyone -

I wanted to share the conference report

published by Kathmandu Living Labs and OSM Nepal community on this year's
SOTM Asia. The conference was amazing, with over 170 participants from
countries around the world.

We look forward to hosting 2018 in Bangalore - I'll have more news about
dates and venue in soon!

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Re: [Talk-in] Map of InternetShutdowns in India - Need Help!

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Looks like a blip - I can see the website now.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Sajjad Anwar <m...@sajjad.in> wrote:
> Hey Sarath -
>
> Looks like the website is down? Could you post a screenshot of the
> boundary mismatches you are seeing? Happy to help. (I work at Mapbox)
>
> Cheers,
> Sajjad
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Sarath M S <sar...@sflc.in> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We just launched a website[1] to keep track of the increasing incidents
>> of Internet Shutdowns in India. So far we have collected information
>> about 62 such incidents across India. You can read more about the issue
>> on the site[2].
>>
>> Apart from the sharing the work and inviting contributions[3], I am
>> writing this to seek help in fixing the problem with India's borders
>> with Pakistan and China showing up in a way that the Government of India
>> doesn't like. Within a few hours of launching the site, we have already
>> received a mail complaining about this.
>>
>> What we tried:
>>
>> * We used the mapbox-gl-boundaries[4] library to switch to the claimed
>> boundaries. The map styles differ from the example used in the README.md
>> file.
>>
>> * A couple of friends from Mapbox helped out with changing the polygons
>> on the state. We also tried using the district and state polygons from
>> datameet.
>>
>> Is there a known fix to this? What else can be done?
>>
>>  [1] http://internetshutdows.in
>>  [2] http://internetshutdowns.in/about
>>  [3] https://gitlab.com/sflcin/internetshutdowns/tree/webapp
>>  [4] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-boundaries
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sarath
>> Technologist, SFLC.in
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Re: [Talk-in] Map of InternetShutdowns in India - Need Help!

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey Sarath -

Looks like the website is down? Could you post a screenshot of the
boundary mismatches you are seeing? Happy to help. (I work at Mapbox)

Cheers,
Sajjad

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Sarath M S <sar...@sflc.in> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We just launched a website[1] to keep track of the increasing incidents
> of Internet Shutdowns in India. So far we have collected information
> about 62 such incidents across India. You can read more about the issue
> on the site[2].
>
> Apart from the sharing the work and inviting contributions[3], I am
> writing this to seek help in fixing the problem with India's borders
> with Pakistan and China showing up in a way that the Government of India
> doesn't like. Within a few hours of launching the site, we have already
> received a mail complaining about this.
>
> What we tried:
>
> * We used the mapbox-gl-boundaries[4] library to switch to the claimed
> boundaries. The map styles differ from the example used in the README.md
> file.
>
> * A couple of friends from Mapbox helped out with changing the polygons
> on the state. We also tried using the district and state polygons from
> datameet.
>
> Is there a known fix to this? What else can be done?
>
>  [1] http://internetshutdows.in
>  [2] http://internetshutdowns.in/about
>  [3] https://gitlab.com/sflcin/internetshutdowns/tree/webapp
>  [4] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-boundaries
>
> Thanks,
> Sarath
> Technologist, SFLC.in
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Re: [Talk-in] [BLR] Volunteers needed for mapping camp for residents of Indiranagar

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Happy to help Arun!

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The citizen of the Indiranagar RWA have requested help to teach them how to
> map their locality to document the trees, footpaths, landuse and other
> amenities to help them take action against illegal felling of trees and
> unauthorized commercialization of the neighborhood.
>
> Are there any mappers from Bengaluru interested to do this on one of the
> weekends? Also ideas on how to structure this?
>
> This would be a great model that can help empower the citizens of any other
> RWA or citizen group in any other part of the country.
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[Talk-in] savethemap.in planning meeting tomorrow May 11, 4pm - 6pm Bangalore

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey everyone,

In the light of the proposed Geospatial Information Regulation Bill,
few of us are gathering at the Center for Internet and Society in
Indiranagar from 4pm tomorrow (May 11) to plan our response and assess
current situation.

Do take part if you can and help us save the map.

Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-in] Geospatial Information Regulation Bill propsal

[Sajjad Anwar]

Pradeep - thank you for bringing this here.

Hey everyone - the open data community in India is building a
coalition between entities in India that use geospatial information to
build an effort to respond to this bill.

We are starting to gather as much information as possible and
collecting them over at:
https://datameet.hackpad.com/Geospatial-Bill-2016-zJwgcQaIvBq

As the OSM frontline of this country, I'd appreciate if we can gather
our efforts with Datameet.
Thank you.

Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-in] Understanding the OSM tile server architecture!

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I present (embarrassingly) -
https://hasgeek.tv/fifthelephant/2014-1/982-scaling-spatial-data-openstreetmap-as-infrastructure

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Devdatta Tengshe devda...@tengshe.in wrote:
 Hi Sajjad,

 This presentation looks amazing. Is there a Video version somewhere?

 Regards,
 Devdatta


 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sajjad Anwar m...@sajjad.in wrote:

 Hey Mayuresh -

 I have worked on the OpenStreetMap infrastructure a bit and might be
 able to take your questions.
 One of my recent talks might also be useful -

 http://sajjad.in/2014/07/openstreetmap-as-infrastructure-the-fifth-elephant-bangalore-2014/

 Cheers,
 Sajjad

 On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Devdatta Tengshe devda...@tengshe.in
 wrote:
  Hi Mayuresh,
 
  I have some experience with the architecture of these kinds of
  GIS/Mapping
  systems, and can possibly help you out. What do you want to know?
 
  You should also have a look at these links:
  http://www.slideshare.net/firefishy1/server-devopts
  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Component_overview
 
  Regards,
  Devdatta
 
 
  On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@kathe.in
  wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  Is there anyone on this list who's knowledgeable about OSM's
  architecture?
 
  If there is, would he/she be willing to field a bunch of questions
  which
  would allow me to understand OSM internals better?
 
  I have tried to dig things up on my own, read an article, know about
  Mapnik, but, just can't get the whole thing in my head in a coherent
  manner.
  Hence the request above.
 
  Best,
 
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Re: [Talk-in] Understanding the OSM tile server architecture!

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Hey Mayuresh -

I have worked on the OpenStreetMap infrastructure a bit and might be
able to take your questions.
One of my recent talks might also be useful -
http://sajjad.in/2014/07/openstreetmap-as-infrastructure-the-fifth-elephant-bangalore-2014/

Cheers,
Sajjad

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 Hi Mayuresh,

 I have some experience with the architecture of these kinds of GIS/Mapping
 systems, and can possibly help you out. What do you want to know?

 You should also have a look at these links:
 http://www.slideshare.net/firefishy1/server-devopts
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Component_overview

 Regards,
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 On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@kathe.in wrote:

 Hi,

 Is there anyone on this list who's knowledgeable about OSM's architecture?

 If there is, would he/she be willing to field a bunch of questions which
 would allow me to understand OSM internals better?

 I have tried to dig things up on my own, read an article, know about
 Mapnik, but, just can't get the whole thing in my head in a coherent manner.
 Hence the request above.

 Best,

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[Talk-in] Road network issues in Hyderabad.

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Hey everyone,

Some of us noticed problems with road connectivity in Hyderabad due to
recent changes. There's a task live for cleaning this up.
http://tasks.openstreetmap.in/project/28

All instructions are in the tasking manager. Will be great if some of
you can jump in help.
Thank you!

Cheers,
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[Talk-in] Mapping event in Delhi. July 4.

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey everyone,

If you are in Delhi during July 4-5, come over the AKVO office to help
us map parts of Uttarakhand. More details here -
http://mappingindia.splashthat.com/

We will use the tasking manager (http://tasks.openstreetmap.in/) to
list tasks prior to the event. The rough list looks like - Dehradun,
Uttarkashi, Pithoragarh and Haridwar. We will focus on road networks
first, in the light of improving OSM for disaster preparedness.

Hope to see some of you in Delhi.

Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-in] Taginfo for India OSM

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey Yogesh -

This is awesome! Is it okay for us to point taginfo.openstreetmap.in
to this server?
Where is this hosted and who is maintaining it?

We can talk off-list.

Cheers,
Sajjad.

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Yogesh योगि
yog...@karnatakaeducation.org.in wrote:
 Hey everyone,

 Now that we have openstreetmap.in and tasking manager instance for OSM
 India, we can slowly start setting up other things around OSM. On this
 front, I have been testing and running updates for a week now on OSM India
 taginfo test instance set up at - http://rmsa.karnatakaeducation.org.in/.
 This taginfo instance is based on the Geofabrik extract which is updated
 daily. Please have a look at it and if all is fine, I can set it up at -
 taginfo.openstreetmap.in

 Taginfo helps in finding and aggregating information about OSM tags and
 setting it up for India will help us to know stats of some of the
 interesting keys/tags like postal_code, and also some interesting reports of
 OSM India tag data.


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Re: [Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey Shekhar -

Can we get more clarity on the license before we start using this please?
Again, we need it in writing that this is public domain or usable for
tracing in OpenStreetMap.

We cannot use it otherwise.

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Shekhar Krishnan shek...@topomancy.com wrote:
 Nice, I finally poked at this. For those on list who don't know tiles URL
 syntax, you can drop this URL into ID and it works great!

 http://tile1.nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py/1.0.0/bhuvan_imagery2/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg

 The subdomain prefix tile1 can be replaced with tile2, 3, 4 (I guess
 these are backup servers?)


 S.K.

 On Sunday 17 May 2015 03:36 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote:



 On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com
 mailto:penor...@mac.com wrote:

 On 5/15/2015 11:39 PM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote:

 As far as I know, Bhuvan uses Tilecache.py to serve out Imagery
 in

 tiles(http://tile1.nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py/1.0.0/bhuvan_imagery2/10/719/456.jpg).
 The catch is that this imagery is in Geographic Latlong (i.e.
 EPSG:4326) and not in Web mercator

 Those are standard map tiles, in Web Mercator.

 You can compare http://tile.openstreetmap.org/10/719/456.png and

 http://tile1.nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py/1.0.0/bhuvan_imagery2/10/719/456.jpg
 to see that they are the same area.


 Thanks Paul, after poking around stumbled on their full list of tile
 layers:
 http://tile1.nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py/1.0.0/layers

 bhuvan_imagery is in WGS84
 bhuvan_imagery2 is in web mercator

 The tms url for bhuvan_imagery2:

 tms:http://tile{switch:1,2,3,4}.nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py/1.0.0/bhuvan_imagery2/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg

 http://nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py/1.0.0/bhuvan_imagery2/%7Bzoom%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.jpg




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Re: [Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

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On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Shekhar Krishnan
shek...@topomancy.com wrote:
 Ishan can you point us to wms or tiles feeds for Bhuvan? Afaik, they are not
 there, but would be hugely useful for all sorts of work.

 Sajjad's Nepal precedent is a good one to approach ISRO again for CartoSat
 raw data. GN and I want to do this via TIFR, we could also work with Mapbox
 India.

 I'm not bothered about licensing terms, since these satellites were launched
 with public money, and by right their output is public. :-)

Agree Shekhar. Just that we'll need this in writing to use with OpenStreetMap :)


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 Dear GN,

  We checked Bhuvan today to get some idea.  We found that they also use
  Id editor for community contributions.

 This is interesting. I couldn't find though. Can you share a
 screenshot? This is particularly interesting for some of us who are
 working to make OpenStreetMap software available for outside the
 ecosystem.

 
  We are trying to get the high resolution satellite maps from ISRO for
  school and college mapping projects that we are currently doing.
 
  If openstreetmap.in would like to get the satellite maps from
  Bhuvan/ISRO, what do we need from them?  Do they have an API to pull
  them as background maps?  We may need them mostly while editing.  Since
  Id editor is already used by them, I am wondering they may already be
  using OSM software stack.

 Couple of things to keep in mind here -

 1. We'd need open licensing, or it should say that tracing for
 OpenStreetMap is permitted.
 2. The layers should be in Web Mercator projection. There are quite a
 few Bhuvan layers that are not.

 
  Was there any history of osm community seeking data from ISRO?

 Recently, we got in touch with ISRO for high resolution post
 earthquake imagery for Nepal. They shared the raw data and some of us
 at Mapbox processed it to make it available on OpenStreetMap -
 https://twitter.com/geohacker/status/593114332164001792

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Re: [Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

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 Does Bing and OSM have an agreement of this sort?  Is it possible to get
 a copy or some statements that will help us ask for similar agreement.

Here's the wiki page - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing
Here's announcement on Bing blog -
http://blogs.bing.com/maps/2010/11/23/bing-engages-open-maps-community/
And OSM blog - 
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2010/11/30/microsoft-imagery-details/

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Re: [Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

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Dear GN,

 We checked Bhuvan today to get some idea.  We found that they also use
 Id editor for community contributions.

This is interesting. I couldn't find though. Can you share a
screenshot? This is particularly interesting for some of us who are
working to make OpenStreetMap software available for outside the
ecosystem.


 We are trying to get the high resolution satellite maps from ISRO for
 school and college mapping projects that we are currently doing.

 If openstreetmap.in would like to get the satellite maps from
 Bhuvan/ISRO, what do we need from them?  Do they have an API to pull
 them as background maps?  We may need them mostly while editing.  Since
 Id editor is already used by them, I am wondering they may already be
 using OSM software stack.

Couple of things to keep in mind here -

1. We'd need open licensing, or it should say that tracing for
OpenStreetMap is permitted.
2. The layers should be in Web Mercator projection. There are quite a
few Bhuvan layers that are not.


 Was there any history of osm community seeking data from ISRO?

Recently, we got in touch with ISRO for high resolution post
earthquake imagery for Nepal. They shared the raw data and some of us
at Mapbox processed it to make it available on OpenStreetMap -
https://twitter.com/geohacker/status/593114332164001792

Sajjad.

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Re: [Talk-in] openstreetmap.in!

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On Thursday, May 14, 2015, GN nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote:

 On 05/14/2015 06:06 PM, Sajjad Anwar wrote:
  Hello everyone,
 
  Really happy to announce that openstreetmap.in -
  http://openstreetmap.in/ - is back and running.
 Waiting to hear such news!  congratulations!

 btw, why is the northern plains looking so empty?

 Would the server be able to take good load?  we would like to draw the
 basemaps from here for our projects.


It's okay use them. They are severed from mapbox.com, just in case there's
so much traffic we can figure out moving it to a different account.


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  Earlier today, Satyaakam, Arun, Sanjay and I put it together. It's
  hosted on a server that Sanjay and I maintain along with several other
  open data projects. The tiles are hosted on mapbox.com under the
  openstreetmap account, updated regularly - changes to OpenStreetMap
  will reflect in under 10 minutes. The style is prepared using Mapbox
  Studio and is here - https://github.com/osmlab/india.tm2 If you have
  feature requests or find bugs in the style, just open a ticket. Pull
  requests welcome!
 
  You can use this map in your project, the instructions are here -
  https://github.com/geohacker/openstreetmap.in#using-this-map
 
  We have also setup a tasking manager instance -
  http://tasks.openstreetmap.in/ - to coordinate mapping events and
  workshops across the country. Please reach out to the list if you need
  help organising a task.
 
  Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

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 That would be so wonderful! Would this mean that we

1. Extract all the name tags within a bounding box to a
spreadsheet/document
2. Host the document somewhere for people to edit.
3. Update the map with the new tags


Yes. I'm thinking how about we make this a web application? Every time
someone hits save, create a changeset and push it to OSM. Could just have a
basic UI.

 If we have an additional field to crowd source an English-The Indic
 Language we decide to pick for the first instance of transliteration
 transliteration for proper nouns in the name tag, it could be useful
 if/when we want to transliterate into other Indic languages later.
 Separating proper nouns is very important I think, since the SILPA
 transliterator seems to transliterate English dictionary words quite well.
 I will try to converse a little more with SILPA soon, and post updates.

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Re: [Talk-in] India Postal Map

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Hey everyone,

Arun and I have been working several PIN code sets. There are a lot of
stuff that we can use and I'm going compile a nationwide list with
coordinates. More soon.

Cheers,
Sajjad.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya 
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 Btw, the visualization is awesome! I love it..

 On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya 
 ichattopadhy...@gmail.com wrote:

 I like this dataset from the opendata portal,
 https://data.gov.in/catalog/all-india-pincode-directory

 I think it has a lot of value to OSM.

 On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com
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 There is a lot of pincode data for major towns and villages in India
 hidden in the postal_code tag like this
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/340748436

 Most of this data comes from the AND import in 2008:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AND_Data

 Yesterday, I decided to extract the nodes with the postal_code tag and
 make a pincode+post office map. The result is available here to explore:
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 This already looks like a very useful dataset to analyze pincode
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Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

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 to take care of the mapnik xml.
 
 
  +1 to Arun on silent nods in agreement :-) My suggestion would be to
  use a different server than OHM, if possible, so that one service
  doesn't disrupt the other under any circumstances. Also, so that it is
  possible to setup a new server (.in) from scratch later, for purposes of
  failover) without too much manual intervention later.
 
  If such a server is not available, we can discuss raising funds for the
  maintenance of a server. However, even a VM on the OHM server might help
  us get through in the beginning?
 
  Satyakaam, you can ping and point the nameservers at the
  hackercoop box (on which you should also have an account, send
  keys to Sanjay if not).
 
  Best,
 
 
  S.K.
 
  On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Arun Ganesh
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 wrote:
 
 
 
  On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:26 PM, satyaakam goswami
  satyaa...@gmail.com mailto:satyaa...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Via Topomancy, Sanjay Bhangar and I have a server
  with ample speed and space to host openstreetmap.in
  http://openstreetmap.in and related projects for
  at least one year. We are providing the same service
  to OpenHistoricalMap.
 
 
  lets talk about it , OpenHistoricalMap is something
  interesting would like to learn more about it .
 
 
  OHM info and mailing list:
  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map
 
  Meanwhile, lets start on OSM India. Johnson has already
  taken the first steps, looking forward to hearing from him.
 
 
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Re: [Talk-in] [Bangalore] Mapping party tomorrow!

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Great! I think we are all going to hangout on #datameet on Freenode.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Yogesh yog...@kalike.org wrote:


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 I'll also join remotely. :)

 On 01/07/2015 12:13 PM, Aneesh T wrote:
 
  I'd like to try and join remotely too... How do I do that? (Potlatch -
 by the way)
 
  On 7 Jan 2015 12:11, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com
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  WIll join in remotely from Dharamsala :)
 
  I'll also be online on oftc#osm
 
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  Hello everyone,
 
  The January edition of GeoBLR is going to be a mapping party. We
 are meeting at the Center for Internet and Society in Domlur from 6pm to
 8pm.
 
  More details and RSVP here -
 http://www.meetup.com/GeoBLR/events/219493116/
 
  Hope to some of you there!
 
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Re: [Talk-in] [Bangalore] Mapping party tomorrow!

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And there's http://scrollback.io/datameet

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Sajjad Anwar m...@sajjad.in wrote:

 Great! I think we are all going to hangout on #datameet on Freenode.

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  WIll join in remotely from Dharamsala :)
 
  I'll also be online on oftc#osm
 
  On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Sajjad Anwar m...@sajjad.in
 mailto:m...@sajjad.in m...@sajjad.in wrote:
 
  Hello everyone,
 
  The January edition of GeoBLR is going to be a mapping party.
 We are meeting at the Center for Internet and Society in Domlur from 6pm to
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  More details and RSVP here -
 http://www.meetup.com/GeoBLR/events/219493116/
 
  Hope to some of you there!
 
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[Talk-in] [Bangalore] Mapping party tomorrow!

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Hello everyone,

The January edition of GeoBLR is going to be a mapping party. We are
meeting at the Center for Internet and Society in Domlur from 6pm to 8pm.

More details and RSVP here - http://www.meetup.com/GeoBLR/events/219493116/

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Re: [Talk-in] Introduction

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Thanks for this Warin.
I've been fixing a few things and buildings in Bangalore. If it helps, you
should try the to-fix utility - http://osmlab.github.io/to-fix/

Cheers,
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(on the go)
On Nov 8, 2014 12:20 AM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi,

 I'm an Australian looking at a holiday in India. So I downloaded a map of
 India (OSM sourced of course). I was dissapointed by the auto routing .. so
 I looked at the OSM source to find that quite a few roads were not
 correctly connected. So I've been doing some 'editorials' or 'housekeeping'
 as I call it. Basicly connecting roads together, adding bridges (using bing
 to check them first of course).

 For 'error' checking/indication I use
 http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?lon=75lat=28zoom=6 .. you have to use
 the left side box to check various things .. it comes up in default as
 'geometry' .. 'routing' is what I use .. it is not infallable but a good
 indication. 'Highways' is also usefull. I use JOSM as my editor and use its
 validator to obtain the places where things are not connected or crossing.

 -
 I also looked at the Red Fort in Agra .. one contributor has used one
 offset in their mapping, while another has used a different offset
 (comparing using bing). I do realise that there is a shadow effect due to
 the side ways look of bing there. But even so they don't match up. I'm
 thinking of trying to tide it up. Unfortunatly neither contributor has
 detailed the source of their information so I cannot judge which is better.
 Thus I'm inclinde to simple go with Bing .. with no offset.

 I've made few additions in places of interest to me. One road I have
 deleted -- it was not conneted on eitehr end and went through some tall
 buildings .. an obvious error. But mostly connectinmg roads and adding
 brigdges. Oh .. and a few railway crossings.

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Re: [Talk-in] CBI google maps

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This was raised last year though. They just issued to the preliminary enquiry.

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Re: [Talk-in] CBI google maps

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My thoughts are not very strong but, I think as long as we leave the vital
points and defense installations out of the map, we won't grab much
attention.

Through Datameet and NIC, some of us are trying to setup a meeting with a
few SoI officials to talk about opening up some data. More about that soon,
when something concrete comes up.

Cheers,
Sajjad.


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Paramvir Singh paramvi...@gmail.com
wrote:

 What does it mean to OSM? Any experts?

 Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
   *From: *Deepak Cherian
 *Sent: *Sunday, 27 July 2014 7:17 PM
 *To: *talk-in@openstreetmap.org
 *Reply To: *OpenStreetMap in India
 *Subject: *[Talk-in] CBI  google maps

 Have you guys seen this?


 http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/google-mapping-comes-under-cbi-scrutiny/article6254654.ece?homepage=true

 The internet giant had not taken permission from Survey of India,
 country’s official mapping agency, before organising a mapping competition
 in February-March 2013 when they asked citizens to map their
 neighbourhoods, especially details related to hospitals and restaurants.

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[Talk-in] OpenStreetMap at The Fifth Elephant, Bangalore.

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that I'm speaking about OpenStreetMap as
Infrastructure at the big data event run by HasGeek later this week -
https://fifthelephant.in/2014/

Here's an abstract of the presentation -
https://funnel.hasgeek.com/fifthel2014/1165-scaling-spatial-data-openstreetmap-as-infrastructu

If you are in Bangalore and would like to come and represent
OpenStreetMap at the event, the fine folks at HasGeek are offering us
a 10% discount on the ticket - EwdaDxfY

I'll share the slide deck and feedback next week.


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Re: [Talk-in] OpenStreetMap 10th Anniversary Birthday party

[Sajjad Anwar]

We could celebrate in Bangalore!

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 Any cities planning to celebrate 10th Anniversary  Birthday pary ?

 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_10th_Anniversary_Birthday_party


 Thanks,
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Re: [Talk-in] Telangana borders

[Sajjad Anwar]

I modified the GADM state boundaries to include Telengana right after
the announcement and just pushed it to Github. If it's of any help -
https://github.com/geohacker/india/blob/master/state/india_telengana.geojson

Cheers,
Sajjad.

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:

  From: Abhishek [mailto:cheerful...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 9:20 AM
  To: talk-in@openstreetmap.org
  Subject: [Talk-in] Telangana borders
 
  Hi,
 
  Not sure if this has been discussed before (I'm an Indian OSM
  contributor based in the US) -- but the thought occurred to me so I
  thought I would reach out. On June 2, the state of Telangana will come
  into existence -- do we have the capability to update OSM to reflect
  the change?

 Yes - anyone who knows the boundaries of a new state and is comfortable
 editing boundary relations can do so.


 Yup, I can volunteer to do it. It should be fairly straightforward, because
 the boundary follows existing district boundaries from what I've seen. In
 any case, does anyone know if there is an official reference map that we can
 use to cross verify? In the meantime we have this:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Telangana_locator_map.svg



 Of course boundary relations are one of the trickier aspects of the OSM
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[Talk-in] Fwd: Mozilla Geolocation Pilot Project

[Sajjad Anwar]

Thought this would be interesting to some of you. If you are in
Bangalore, you should go. I do have a feeling that they are trying to
do something that OSM has already established. Worth having the
conversation.

Cheers,
Sajjad.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Soumya Deb deblo...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:14 AM
Subject: Mozilla Geolocation Pilot Project
To: Sajjad Anwar sajja...@gmail.com


Hi Sajjad,

Mozilla Location Service team is kicking off a series of events in
India, called Geolocation in a Box. The primary purpose of the event
is to understand location services with greater depth (checking out
the existing wheels, before recreating), explore possibilities, gather
feedback  connect with the developer community to build on top of it.

This competes directly with Google Location Services et al. and as you
can understand, it will need a lot of community backing to do so well.
It's an open, public location service for all; and is from Mozilla, so
it's as altruistic as it gets.

The event targets to spread general awareness of the project,
brainstorm  gather feedback from the people who has insights in this
topic  then go on a short distributed trip to the city, with
MozStumbler app on participant's android devices, to gather location
data. We have pretty neat plans to reward the top contributors! ;)

Following are the links you may wanna check out:
Event Page: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/geolocation-in-a-box-bangalore/
Service Page: https://location.services.mozilla.com/
Bangalore Data: https://location.services.mozilla.com/map#12/12.9664/77.5666
Leaderboard of contributors: https://location.services.mozilla.com/leaders

As you have invaluable contributions  recognition in OSM, I request
you to spread the word to the folks based in Bangalore, who can drop
by the Red Hat office on this Saturday afternoon.

Thanks in advance!

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Re: [Talk-in] What just happened?

[Sajjad Anwar]

I'm going to miss this too.
On Jan 27, 2013 8:25 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have started an etherpad for the Bangalore meetup today:
 http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/OSM-Bangalore.

 I'm also pretty sure there are lots of Bangalore editors who are not on
 the mailing list, I will message them by poking into the osm history.



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 Karnataka is distinctly better than the neighbouring states... :)

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Re: [Talk-in] Invitation: Historical OSM Hangout - Asia, Australia, Pacific @ Tue Jan 15 9pm - 10pm (talk-in@openstreetmap.org)

[Sajjad Anwar]

I'm game too.


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Jeff, I'm in for this. Can you send an invite to my email so that I can
 add it to my calendar? Thanks.


 On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote:

  more details 
 »https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEWeid=bzQybjliNDI3bDh0MTNudWp1Z2tibDF1OWMgdGFsay1pbkBvcGVuc3RyZWV0bWFwLm9yZwtok=MTQjamVmZkBnd2hhdC5vcmc4NDM0NmI0NzM5MDU5YjViNzNmMzEzNGUzMTJjOGRjZTIzZjM1N2Y0ctz=America/Los_Angeleshl=en
 Historical OSM Hangout - Asia, Australia, Pacific
 I'd like to host a Historical OSM Google Hangout for those who have not
 been able to make past hangouts due to time difference issues.

 Our goal is to create a parallel version of the OSM stack for use in
 mapping places as they've looked through history and to eventually create
 time-based tiles or basemaps.

 To learn more about this project, please see:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSMhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.openstreetmap.org%2Fwiki%2FHistorical_OSMusd=2usg=AFQjCNG8BpruvBKpSOfDI4q3HzzovL-XZQ

 I believe this should be:
 0900 Moscow
 1030 Mumbai
 1400 Tokyo
 1600 Melbourne

 Please confirm if you can attend - I'd like to ensure a fun crowd.

 My guess is that English will be the language of the call, but if anyone
 would like to lead the effort in other languages, please let me know.

 Regards,
 Jeff

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Re: [Talk-in] Mappy hour?

[Sajjad Anwar]

All Mumbai? No love for Bangalore? :(


On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Subhodip Biswas
subhodipbis...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hey, If a meetup is happening, I am in too.



 -
 Regards
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 GPG key : FAEA34AB
 Server : pgp.mit.edu
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 http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas



 On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote:

 How come everyone is suddenly in Mumbai? If anyone is planning to come
 towards the himalayas, I can be found near Dharamshala till January.


 On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Erica and I will be in the megacity Tuesday and Wednesday


 * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron

   --
 *From:* Shekhar Krishnan shek...@topomancy.com
 *To:* talk-in@openstreetmap.org
 *Sent:* Thursday, November 22, 2012 9:26 PM
 *Subject:* Re: [Talk-in] Mappy hour?

 Sure. Let's do a meetup next week in the evening sometime. Other Mumbai
 OSMers around?
 Please call me 98200.45529. My office is in Matunga West/Mahim and we
 can most probably meet there.
 Best,
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 http://shekhar.cc
 On Nov 22, 2012 2:56 AM, Russell Nelson russnel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey everybody, I'm going to be arriving in Mumbai Sunday morning, here
 for a week. Does anybody want to get together of an evening, do some
 armchair mapping, talk about OSM, whatever? We usually work until 7:30 or
 8, so I'm available after that. I'm working at Rediff in Mahim, but my
 hotel is the Bawa International in Santa Cruz, but I can make my way around
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Re: [Talk-in] Any OpenStreet Mapping Party in Bangalore?

[Sajjad Anwar]

Dear Vignesh,

It's awesome that you brought up the idea of a mapping party along
with the software freedom day celebrations.

 From what I could search on internet, just having smartphones with GPS is
 not enough and we need specific GPS receivers. If you can explain what
 specific GPS recievers are required, we can try to  arrange few of them for
 that day.

September 22 is a tough one for me. We will be in the middle of a
conference (http://cartonama.com/2012). Here are a few pointers to get
you started with mapping:

1. The beginners' guide on the wiki is the best place to start
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide
2. Usually, what I do is to trace out maximum details from the
satellite imagery of the area first and then go out with a GPS device
to collect missing information. Which area and how big is the
neighborhood you are intending to map? How long will the mapping party
be? We can help you structure the process a bit if you can let us know
about this.
3. There are several OpenStreetMap Editors. These tools are used to
edit the GPS data/satellite imagery and 'tag' them suitably to create
the map. Potlatch
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.3.2) is the
easiest and web based tool. JOSM
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.3.3) is a very
efficient offline tool.

HTH.

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Re: [Talk-in] Monuments of India - geographical co-ordinates?

[Sajjad Anwar]

 Only, all monuments do not have a wikipedia page. Actually it seems like
 only a minuscule portion of them do.

 Also, most of the descriptions are generic:
 Two swivel guns belonging to the Mughal Nawwara
 Burial Cave
 Ruins

 Its quite a task to actually locate them and map it with this information.
 This is a massive coordinated mapping project itself. If done, it would be
 an awesome database which even the government may not have.

It is. In fact, Arky and I started http://www.heritagewalks.in/ as
part of the Maps for Making Change workshop and tried to come up with
a platform for people to quickly check in locations of heritage
importance. The project didn't take-off as expected and is in a bad
shape.

Any crowdsourced project of this sort will eventually face this
chicken and egg problem, and that's one of my learnings from the
heritagwalks.in project.

The workflow that Onkar suggested seems sensible to me, but it boils
down to the availability of data and how we can go about it.

Cheers,
Sajjad.


 2. Tag all the monuments that are already mapped with this tag
 (provided wikipedia page is already present).
 3. Use XAPI to retrieve all the nodes which have this tag within the
 bbox of India. [2]
 4. From this OSM dump you can easily get coordinates using some XML
 parsing.

 Example XAPI query (bbox is small, retrieves one node)

 http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/node[bbox=72.607,17.639,74.983,19.542][wikipedia=*]

 [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikipedia
 [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI#Nodes


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Re: [Talk-in] Data loss due to license change

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey,

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote:
 I think the osm redaction bot has finished cleaning up India and removed all
 non-odbl data.

 From this: http://odbl.de/india.html , I think we lost roughly 2% of the
 data due to the license switch, a good part being in central and south
 Bangalore, due to user:pynam and user:chfrangers who did not accept the new
 license. Its unfortunate that we lost the work of so many, I had tried
 sending them emails and even hunting them on facebook, but without response.

We seem to have lost considerable data in Kerala as well. Same story,
users didn't respond.


 In any case, i guess this is all for the better and the new license opens up
 a lot more opportunities for using the osm data. There's a lot of cleanup to
 do especially in Bangalore due to the missing roads. does anyone know where
 we could get the details of what parts were removed so that it can be fixed?

OSM Inspector should be handy
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/debug.html?view=botlon=77.82860lat=10.79962zoom=8overlays=overview,bot_point_modified,bot_line_modified_cp,bot_line_modified,bot_point_deleted,bot_line_deleted_cp,bot_line_deleted

I'll start cleaning up bits of Kerala first and then give you a hand
in Bangalore.

Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-in] osm workshop in trivandrum

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Hi,

 They will fund it, but would prefer the resource persons to be local -
 anyone from Kerala can take this up?

I'm from Kerala but living in Bangalore now. What are the possible
dates that  they are looking at?

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Re: [Talk-in] Indic rendering

[Sajjad Anwar]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Vardhan

 Different issue from CJK characters.


 I believe the underlying issue here is that Mapnik is rendering the string
 one character at a time in order to make the characters follow along the
 path. These Indic languages use ligatures where the rendering depends on
 multi-character sequences and can not be correctly rendered one character at
 a time,

 https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/112#issuecomment-2365351

Let me take this problem to the Indic language computing community and
find out what can be done.


 Mikel

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 From: Vardhan Naik vardhan.n...@dsrede.in
 To: cartonama-works...@googlegroups.com
 Cc: talk-in@openstreetmap.org talk-in@openstreetmap.org
 Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:52 AM
 Subject: Re: Indic rendering

 Hi Mikel,

 Am not a Map person.. but found this for chinese. is that we miss the ttf
 file or so? on the server?

 Optional: CJK font fallback support

 Currently, mapnik includes a font to support CJK characters (Chinese,
 Japanese, Korean, et. al. or more generally East Asia). To add support you
 need to open the file inc/fontset-settings.xml.inc and uncomment the lines
 that have unifont Medium.
 Older mapnik versions did not have unifont included. There you need to:

 Download the GNU Unifont Glyphs
 Unpack and put the ttf file in your /usr/local/lib/mapnik/fonts (or
 appropriate path) directory with the other Mapnik fonts.



 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Hi

 During the cartonama workshop, we discovered that Mapnik still has issues
 with rendering Indic fonts.

 http://tiles.mapbox.com/groundtruth/map/map-busd5lm5

 It's a known issue.

 https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/112

 Artem has looked into a bit, but hasn't proceeded that far. Anyone
 knowledgeable in handling Indic fonts that might be able to advise?

 -Mikel

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Re: [OSM-talk] mapbox

[Sajjad Anwar]

Dear Frans,

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote:
 hi all

 i just read the 4square blog, they use mapbox , rather using direct OSM.org

Yes, Foursquare and many others are using MapBox. Most of OSM's
servers are donated resources and there is a fair usage policy
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy
For this reason (plus several others) are hosting the map tiles separately.

 anyone using mapbox or tile direct?

Bunch of people who recently moved to OSM are listed here
http://switch2osm.org/case-studies/


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Re: [Talk-in] Fw: Fwd: [datameet] Data Camp IS HAPPENING!

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
 DataCamp. They want OSM participation.

 Ironically at Google :). In Bangalore I think.

Yes!

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 From: Shekhar Krishnan shek...@mit.edu
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  Original Message 
 Subject:     [datameet] Data Camp IS HAPPENING!
 Date:     Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:02:01 +0530
 From:     Nisha Thompson nisha.thomp...@gmail.com
 Reply-To:     datam...@googlegroups.com
 To:     datam...@googlegroups.com



 Google has approved our application for having DataCamp at their offices
 and they will also provide food!!!

 Thej and I met for a little while yesterday and talked about all the
 things we need to do now.

 Date: We propose March 24th Saturday. That should give us enough time.

 Proposed Schedule:

 8:00- Registration –tea and coffee

 9:30am – Opening/Introduction - board populating

 10:30am – 11:15am – opening panel – intro to the world of open data
 (main auditorium) – This will be the only planned panel discussion.

 12:30 to 1:30 – lunch

 1:45 – 2:30 – panel 2 (breakout rooms)

 2:45 – 3:30 – panel 3 (breakout rooms)

 3:30 to 4 – tea break

 4 to 6 – panels and open meeting space -  (main room) (5 min talks)
 (project and question time) (main room)

 (break out rooms for more panels)

 6:00 to 6:30 – closing


 To Dos:


 To dos:

 1-Get invites out and to set up Do Attend – actual contacts – I sent out
 a list with orgs and names we need the actual contacts now. Also right
 now we will not charge for early bird and we will see if we can figure
 out how to collect the money we charge for later registrants.

 2-Get some sponsors for printouts and potential scholarship money

 4-Outreach – datameet, barcamp group, Open Knowledge Foundation,
 Transparency Initiative, India Water Portal, Wikipedians, Open Street
 Map India, Citizen Matters, I Paid a Bribe, Jaaga, Azem PremJ,  - -
 *What other networks are out there? *

 5-FLYER, Poster, logo – branding –Open DataCamp – Banglore 2012
 datameet.org http://datameet.org

 6-Volunteers for the event – registration, to help with the board, 1 to
 15 – pictures, some video, blogging, tweeting, live streaming,

 7-Content writing – copy for the site


 sSAny help on any of these fronts is appreciated and necessary. Thej and
 I will be getting in contact a few of you in the coming few days. We
 would like to have invites out by this week.


     Thanks!








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[Talk-in] [OT] Cartonama Workshop

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Hey everyone,

HasGeek announces Cartonama workshop on 2nd and 3rd March at the
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore.

Cartonama is conceived around the idea that people need to learn more
about the tools with which they can manage their geographic data. This
workshop will provide a platform for developers, neogeographers and
entrepreneurs working on location based services to get hands-on
training about advanced tools - server side and client side - that
will help them to manage and represent their geographic data. See
http://workshop.cartonama.com for more details.

The workshop will be facilitated by Mikel Maron and Schuyler Erle,
both of who have been working extensively with Open Street Maps (OSM),
open data, mapping tools and communities.

The workshop sessions have been posted on
http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/.

This workshop is open only to 30 participants. The ticket price is Rs.
10,000. Registrations are open on cartonama.doattend.com. Payments can
also be sent through cheques and DD.

For more details, please write to me on saj...@hasgeek.in.

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Re: [Talk-in] Indic place names in [name] tags

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote:

 I have been trying to render maps from the osm data and the multilingual
 place names in the [name] tags has been an issue. There are all sorts of
 formats: [latin], [latin local], [local latin], [latin
 (local)], [local (latin)], [local].

 Yes, I also bumped into these issues.


 I feel for the sake of consistency, only the latin name be entered into
 the [name] tag, and the local language one in the [name:hi] or similar tag
 with the two letter language code. Otherwise the inconsistent name tags is
 just going to make processing the data cumbersome. I'm going to move the
 local names into the name: subtags, let me know if anyone has an issue with
 that. No data is going to be lost, only that the default osm tiles will
 only show the latin names. But then again its time we set up india tile
 servers for indian languages so that localization can be carried out in a
 more consistent manner.
 cheers,


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[OSM-talk] GPS Logger

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Hi,

I've been trying to find out a basic GPS data logger. A friend used
the Holux m-241
http://www.holux.com/JCore/en/products/products_content.jsp?pno=341
Are there any other similar best buy devices that someone here has come across?

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[Talk-in] Indian state boundaries

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Hi everyone,

We are just thinking of creating a choropleth map based on some education
data in India. The state boundaries rendered out of mapnik doesn't look
promising. What is the status of the state boundaries? Are they good and
dependable?

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Re: [Talk-in] Daily OSM India extract now available from geofabrik

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Awesome!

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Re: [Talk-in] Mapping in Ludhiana

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Wishing a wonderful time and all success for the entire team.

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:39 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote:

  #GNDEC #Ludhiana students doing #openstreetmap (#OSM) mapping for
 #shimlapuri


 http://www.google.com/buzz/113917767154712657257/UE1ePoWrhZU/RaiHS-GNDEC-Ludhiana-students-doing-openstreetmap

 http://gndec.ac.in/~lug/?q=node/14

 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_ShimlaPuri

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Re: [Talk-in] WMS Plugin in JOSM: Error

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RIght. LANDSAT usually gives more exceptions than tiles :)
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Re: [Talk-in] Indian Slum Mapping

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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:07 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com
 wrote:
  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 ...


OpenStreetMaps are and can be used for not only during navigation. Tagging
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[Talk-in] Unidentified or wrong rendering on OpenStreetMap.org ?

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Hi.

I just noticed this
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=20.6151lon=88.7885zoom=13
What is that block seen in Bay of Bengal ? Rendering issues?

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Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

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Hi!

I have been in touch with Graham as well, and posted my idea on the GSoC
2010 ideas page. This is just to keep talk list posted.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#OpenStreetMap_Mashup_generator

Please fire your suggestions and comments.

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Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hello,

 I don't want to break enthusiasm from anyone but the deadline was the 12th
 of March, meaning that we are 4 days behind the deadline. Has anyone
 contacted Google for an extension? I don't mind seeing great ideas discussed
 here, on the contrary, but then, we have to keep in mind that they won't be
 for a GSOC unless someone contacted Google.


Uh oh looks like you are mistaken. Graham has already placed the
OpenStreetMap's proposal and application to Google as seen here.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010

The ideas are jotted down at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010

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[Talk-in] tagging public wells

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Hi

Recently I came across few public wells. What is the standard scheme that I
should use to tag them?

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[OSM-talk] POI's dont show up on Mapnik

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Hello!

We had a heritage mapping at Fort Cochin
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=9.96544lon=76.24292zoom=17
Most of the POI's which we tagged as historic: memorial, ruins.

How do we make the renderer know about these?


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[Talk-in] POI's dont show up on Mapnik

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Hello!

We had a heritage mapping at Fort Cochin
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=9.96544lon=76.24292zoom=17
Most of the POI's which we tagged as historic: memorial, ruins.

How do we make the renderer know about these?


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Re: [Talk-in] Google Mapping Party

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:42 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Sajjad Anwar sajja...@gmail.com wrote:
  Can some one translate it?
 
  or just brief here what is there in above link.
 
   Google is planning a Mapping Party on February 5th. The Intelligence
 wing
  of Government of Kerala has reported to the Home Ministry that this is
  to be  prevented due to security reasons.

 Can they apply same logic to OSM mapping?

Yes they can.


 If no, it is O.K, but are they know difference between OSM and Google,
 and is that difference make any difference to security?

They do not know the difference at this point. But, the press note will make
this far better clear.


 If yes, then what OSM community need to know and how to proceed further.

We need to make them aware that, now even mobile phones have GPS technology.
With this level of technology prevention of mapping can be done only through
a government intervention or a ban,  but that seems to be purely against
democracy.

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Re: [Talk-in] Google Mapping Party

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article83524.ece

 Google mapping party gets into trouble in Kerala.
 Intelligence DGP Sibi Mathews to consult Govt

 http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=123843n_type=NEcategory_id=3Farc=

There had been a discussion on the Free Software User Group Trivandrum about
this. Few people are trying to attend the party, they have assured that the
data will come up in OpenStreetMap also.
Do we need to stop this?

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Re: [Talk-in] Google Mapping Party

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:17 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article83524.ece
 
  Google mapping party gets into trouble in Kerala.
  Intelligence DGP Sibi Mathews to consult Govt
 
 http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=123843n_type=NEcategory_id=3Farc=

 Can some one translate it?

 or just brief here what is there in above link.

 Google is planning a Mapping Party on February 5th. The Intelligence wing
of Government of Kerala has reported to the Home Ministry that this is to be
prevented due to security reasons.

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Re: [Talk-in] International Collaborative Project : Joint Punjab Mapping

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Kudos! Great initiative. We would be happy to know what kind of
services would be provided?

Regards.
(Sorry for top posting.)

On 1/20/10, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote:
 Joint Punjab Mapping Project

 “Joint Punjab Mapping” project which include building capacity to have
 Digital Map of Punjab States of India and Pakistan in public domain,
 on which host of services may run for the benefit of engineers,
 scientists and general public. This project is a collaborative project
 between Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana (Pb) India and
 Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan (Punjab) Pakistan.

 The project is funded by Open Society Institute USA through Open
 Street Map Foundation of United Kingdom. Dr. H.S.Rai, Professor of
 Civil Engineering is Project Leader in India and Prof. Asif Rasul is
 Project Leader in Pakistan. The duration of project is one year.

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[Talk-in] Markers on click

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Hello.

I'm a new user of OpenLayers. Im trying to create a website in which a layer
of OpenStreetMap is displayed. And when the user clicks on a point, I need
to add a marker to that point. I have added the OSM layer and configured so
that once a click occurs it returns an alert with the lat/lon, by following
an example at OpenLayers Click Handler
Examplehttp://openlayers.org/dev/examples/click-handler.html.

But I need to put the marker at the point where the click occurs. Tried many
examples, but could not figure that out.
My current code snippet is here http://pastebin.com/m24d302f2

Please help.

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Re: [Talk-in] SoM-I

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2009/12/17 ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com

 2009/12/17 Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com

 2009/12/17 H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com:
  I think, it is time to plan State of the Map: National Conference for
 India
 

 +1

 True. How do we get started?


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[OSM-talk] Osmarender problems

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Hello.

I tried to render a data set of our region which we recently mapped using
Osmarender. The rendering was fine. I could get the svg image. The problem
was that, there where no names in the map, including the highways, buildings
etc.
What could be wrong? Please help out. Thanks!

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[Talk-in] Fort Cochin Heritage Mapping

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Hello

We came to know about the Fort Cochin Heritage walk, which brings in a lot
of tourists flying down to Kerala. Recently, one of our friends were there
and he had pointed out that the map was not good, to let the tourists take
total advantage of the walk. Probably, GeoHackers http://geohackers.in/ is
planning to map the walk, and print maps, with overlay information which can
help the tourists, make their visit worthwhile. The mapping is tentatively
planned to be during 27-28 December. More information is
http://geohackers.in/fort_cochin.htmlherehttp://geohackers.in/Fort_Cochin_Mapping_Party.html
We need more suggestion regarding how to improve the map, so that it can
help tourists. Are there any kinds of OpenStreetMaps tools or mashups for
the same purpose?

We know this is a very small initiative, still, just this would bring a lot
of relief to the tourists. Thank you.

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Re: [Talk-in] Trivandrum Mapping Party

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On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote:

 On Saturday 05 Dec 2009 12:04:13 am Sajjad Anwar wrote:
  Another Mapping Party is planned at Trivandrum during 12-13 December
 2009.
  SciPy.in is happening at Technopark, Trivandrum. This would be a good
 time
  to stage OpenStreetMap. Those who visit SciPy can join us anytime.  More
  details regarding the event is at http://tr.im/GDXQ
 

 some of our engineers will be attending scipy, and they will be bringing
 GPS
 instruments also. Trivandrum has excellent satellite coverage, so mapping
 can
 be done even by people without GPS. I noticed that quite a lot has been
 done
 already. However, I hope that you people are not going to confine your work
 just to the party - one can map without a party also. And your NIT work is
 still not up to speed. I still cannot see buildings, lawns, trees and some
 roads too - I note I can now get to the ladies hostel, but how does one get
 to
 the mini canteen? Mapping is a process, it is done on a daily basis -
 parties
 and things are good (and fun). But in Trivandrum - and calicut town also,
 given the fact that there is good satellite imagery, one can sit at home
 and
 do a huge amount of mapping without GPS and without party. Take Mysore,
 most
 of the roads have been traced from satellite by a person from Germany - of
 course it is not fully accurate, but those of us with ground knowledge have
 been working at correcting this. I met some people in Trivandrum - they
 said
 'we would love to map, but we do not have GPS'. Please make the message in
 Trivandrum loud and clear - most of  Trivandrum can be mapped *without* GPS
 as
 long as one has local knowledge of the area. Please add this in your wiki
 page
 also.

Yes. Thank you so much for yur really constructive ideas and suggestions. Im
right away pulling these information to the wiki. We would try our best to
improve quality and spread the message. If you can please send me the
contact numbers of the engineers from your side, so that I can get in touch
with them.
Regarding NIT-C, the map is still being evolved. I have few friends in NIT
who are collecting more data and tagging. I am sure to come up with
something soon.

Would get in touch here with more queries.

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[Talk-in] Mapping Party howto document

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Hello.

We recently had a very good experience getting involved in the OpenStreetMap
project through a mapping party. The event was really interesting. As a part
of the promotion of OpenStreetMap in and around Kerala, we are planning to
organize a series of mapping parties. From the above party, we have learned
how to organize a mapping party and created a document on that. The document
is here http://geohackers.in/content/howto.html. Please go through it and
leave your comments/suggestions.

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Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Party howto document

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote:

 On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 8:50:15 pm Sajjad Anwar wrote:
  We recently had a very good experience getting involved in the
   OpenStreetMap project through a mapping party. The event was really
   interesting. As a part of the promotion of OpenStreetMap in and around
   Kerala, we are planning to organize a series of mapping parties. From
 the
   above party, we have learned how to organize a mapping party and created
 a
   document on that. The document is here
   http://geohackers.in/content/howto.html. Please go through it and
 leave
   your comments/suggestions.
 

 where is the map you created?

The map is here
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.32007lon=75.93383zoom=17
But this is the first attempt, hence the map is incomplete, the quality of
work is very poor. The document is a step forward to improve the quality.

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Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Party howto document

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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote:

 On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 11:09:51 pm Sajjad Anwar wrote:
   On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 8:50:15 pm Sajjad Anwar wrote:
We recently had a very good experience getting involved in the
 OpenStreetMap project through a mapping party. The event was really
 interesting. As a part of the promotion of OpenStreetMap in and
 around
 Kerala, we are planning to organize a series of mapping parties.
 From
  
   the
  
 above party, we have learned how to organize a mapping party and
created
  
   a
  
 document on that. The document is here
 http://geohackers.in/content/howto.html. Please go through it and
  
   leave
  
 your comments/suggestions.
  
   where is the map you created?
 
  The map is here
 
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.32007amp;lon=75.93383amp;zoom=17
  But this is the first attempt, hence the map is incomplete, the quality
 of
  work is very poor. The document is a step forward to improve the quality.
 

 I think you have totally missed the point of mapping - the idea of
 openstreetmap is to produce usable maps. Not to have parties. As far as I
 can
 see you have not touched the map since your party. And people who see your
 map
 will laugh at you - and laugh at OSM. Mapping is an activity that has to
 take
 place every day. And remember, it is a *street* map - which means it must
 show
 streets, roads and pathways. It must show buildings. I see a mini canteen
 there. How does one get to it? No road? not even a footpath? And how do the
 ladies get to their hostel? It is not even necessary to have a GPS
 instrument
 to sketch these things in. You have an outline. Now fill in the buildings,
 sketch the streets, paths, gardens, trees. Even if it is not precise, when
 you
 get an instrument you can correct it. For the last few months you have been
 talking about your party - and how you are going to hold parties in all the
 engineering colleges in Kerala. Please stop talking and writing documents -
 and start mapping. If you want to know how a map should look like, refer to
 the examples Prof Rai and I have shown you.


I understand your points very well. We are reworking on the map.


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Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Party howto document

[Sajjad Anwar]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Guillaume Audirac 
guillaume.audi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello Sajjad,

 where is the map you created?

 The map is here
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.32007lon=75.93383zoom=17
 But this is the first attempt, hence the map is incomplete, the quality of
 work is very poor. The document is a step forward to improve the quality.


 Indeed the quality is poor, but I guess you have subscribed to this mailing
 list to improve it ?

Exactly.

 OpenStreetMap is a great project, but it requires initially a deep dive in
 the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page) to understand what
 to do, what to avoid. To understand also that it may take a few hours for
 your changes to be updated on the Mapnik rendering (or more depending on the
 zoom scale), to understand that you should not tag for the rendering but to
 reflect the reality. Try to see what others do in some nicely-mapped area.
 And feel free to ask your questions or doubts on the mailing list.

Yes. The map we created is not actually totally rendered. I wonder what went
wrong. We are reworking on the data with the new subset from OSM and will
come up here with queries.


 Some useful tool like KeepRight can help you to fix some basic mistakes
 (updated once a week I guess):

 http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?db=osm_XDzoom=16lat=11.31964lon=75.93473layers=B00Tch=0show_ign=0show_tmpign=0
 (the Permalink allows you to bookmark a specific location in updating the
 URL)

Thank  you for this tip. The KeepRight tool is going to be of great help.


 You can also use JOSM and the validator plugin to check the basic errors
 before uploading.
 Some mistakes are very basic and cannot make use of the map for routing
 purpose for example: crossing roads with ways not connected. Or they are
 unappropriate like building=yes on a single node (use a closed-way for this
 tag) or replace it with landuse=residential for example.
 Refer often to the *Map Features* page to know the most common tags and
 attributes: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features, and also how
 to combine them.

We'll try them.



 I personally don't try to map everything and everyday, but what I find
 useful for me and others.

 Greetings,
 Guillaume


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Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Party: NIT-C Campus, Calicut, Kerala

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote:

 On Wednesday 28 Oct 2009 7:04:49 am H.S.Rai wrote:
  On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Sajjad Anwar sajja...@gmail.com
 wrote:
   We are planning a mapping party to map the campus and adjoining roads
 of
   the National Institute of Technology - Calicut (NIT-C).
 

Would post the press release in hindi and english soon. We have more data to
be tagged and uploaded. Hopefully by the end of this week. As this was the
first of its kind in Kerala, we were not aware of the issues. I guess now we
have probably understood all those troubles and planning methods to shoot
them. We would pop here with more questions.

  Found your output at:
 
 
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=11.31701lon=75.93172zoom=17layers=0B00
 FTF

 where are the roads? lawns? trees? buildings?
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Re: [Talk-in] anything during this FOSS.IN?

[Sajjad Anwar]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote:

 On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:25:05 +0530
 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:

  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.

Good Idea.


 If you are interested, go ahead and submit it (the deadline is
 midnight tomorrow, Mon.). Whether it is accepted or not, we can
 just do it any way.

 Regards,
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[OSM-talk] Posters for Mapping Party

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hey.
I have seen a few posters of mapping parties.
Does any one share the source files?

Thanks.


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Re: [OSM-talk] Please

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[OSM-talk] Requirement for GPS Device at Kerala, India

[Sajjad Anwar]

Hello.
We are planning a Mapping Party. The first one is a kind of micro. We are
mapping the entire campus of National Institute of Technology, Calicut,
Kerala, India. The second is mapping our city (Calicut, Kerala, India ;
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.2535lon=75.8357zoom=13) and
adding more points and places of interest.
We would need GPS devices. Can anyone help?


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