[Talk-in] Geospatial data and Data Protection Bill

Hello all, I came across this article[1] on proposed Data Protection Authority considering geospatial data under its ambit. If someone has more details, please do share. While comments to Sri Krishna Committee is closed, there is still some time before bill gets tabled and passed and it would be

Re: [Talk-in] How to get all missing street names for chennai?

Thanks Aruna for the queries. On 4 April 2017 at 15:56, Paul Norman wrote: > > I'd stay away from translation. name:* tags are for names in different > languages, not translations of names. I do get the difference. Which is why, all the options (Wikidata, Google translate,

Re: [Talk-in] Use MapRoulette to improve OSM - India data

On 15 March 2017 at 19:22, Naveen Francis wrote: > One more task > - Add wikidata tags for Indian Highways, it has been add for about 100 > primary highways. > Would it be easier to run through scripts to update the tags? Since these are far more structured pieces of info

Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

On 7 April 2015 at 11:32, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > Aruna, we can use the Wikidata to get a first pass of the translation and > then present the spreadsheet view for someone to eyeball and add missing? > I got a spreadsheet view[0] to this using the OverpassToGoogleSheets

[Talk-in] Indic Maps using Mapzen

Hi all, I have added a language selector option to Mapzen Tangram maps[1] and made it support 12 languages[2]. We are figuring a way to add India borders after which these / similar maps could power openstreetmap.in in all Indic languages. [1] https://mapzen.com/products/tangram/ [2]

Re: [Talk-in] Use of official names for cities

Some related news (Kerala towns mainly though) http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/government-approves-new-names-of-25-towns-175540 Srikanth ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Re: [Talk-in] Extracting road information from particular cities.

Hi, You could use XAPI[1] and query with different tag types.Visit www.openstreetmap.org and zoom into place of interest and click on the export tab, you get the coords for bounding box. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at

Re: [Talk-in] BusRoutes.in

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: Arun, what would it take to make BusRoutes.in usable in Bangalore? What data do you need? Hi Jace, We require the basic stage data of all the routes. If its in a machine readable format like csv or in some structured

Re: [Talk-in] BusRoutes.in

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: I guess the BTIS guys are the best bet for this data. Pandian, care to help? I guess the best data is available with BMTC (for the routes using the PIS funded by JnNURM) and is also in usable form, since it has

Re: [Talk-in] Renumbering National Highways

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways have released the new scientific numbering scheme[1]. We need to decide if we

[Talk-in] Renumbering National Highways

Hi all, The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways have released the new scientific numbering scheme[1]. We need to decide if we should move to the new numbering form or not. Also i think its better to have the old numbers as well. Probably we can have ref_old and ref_new keys.Now we have a

[Talk-in] GPSMid -- J2ME Application

All, Came across this awesome java mobile app GPSMid [1] after planemad tweeted about it. This app can take OSM data and hold it in the form of midlet and provide routing. It can position using Cell ID. So positioning / navigation on any phone which has j2me support / some memory without GPS /

Re: [Talk-in] GPSMid -- J2ME Application

on gps devices On 5/20/10, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: All, Came across this awesome java mobile app GPSMid [1] after planemad tweeted about it. This app can take OSM data and hold it in the form of midlet and provide routing. It can position using Cell ID. So

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping the Indian Railway network using high resolution Landsat imagery

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: well, I travelled from coimbatore-pollachi-dindigul-madurai, the tracks were there - but no trains. broadgauge conversion is going on. How do we map this? I remember seeing some under-construction attribute for fly

Re: [Talk-in] latest data on site- attn HS Rai

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: hi, I finally managed to ssh to our server and update the data - hopefully Prof's well is now available to the public. Hi Kenneth, index.html has a broken link to quicklinks.html though i have checked in the same.

Re: [Talk-in] url-redirection-for-cities

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:32 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:06 AM, issues-nore...@bitbucket.org wrote: http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/osmindia/issue/7/url-redirection-for-cities Since we have a nice .in domain, can we set up a URL redirection something

Re: [Talk-in] url-redirection-for-cities

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: http://bestofosm.org/ We want to have best of OSMI Yes, definitely. My current plan for quick links is to have major cities, all places mentioned at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India#Mapping_progress and other

Re: [Talk-in] Default view of OSMI

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Tuesday 01 Dec 2009 1:24:44 pm H.S.Rai wrote: Please set default zoom level 2, or better if , it can be: http://xlquest.net/?zoom=5amp;lat=21.94305amp;lon=80.37598amp;layers=B i.e. zoom level 5, India

Re: [Talk-in] Border Disclaimer

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Friday 27 Nov 2009 10:06:01 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 27 Nov 2009 10:00:36 am Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: Can we have

Re: [Talk-in] Border Disclaimer

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: hows this: The frontiers depicted on this map come from the OSM database*[1]* and differ from the official government map of India. We are making efforts to depict the official boundaries. Until such time please

Re: [Talk-in] Border Disclaimer

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Friday 27 Nov 2009 11:51:39 am Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: *-- XLQUEST team / OSM Contributors in India and link to OSM page? *(Clarifies We, Things where a foundation will help) *[1] location to OSM database

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Party howto document

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Thursday 26 Nov 2009 10:08:56 am Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: Even when you have instrument, it is ideal to actually map with the gps data collected *on the same day* to get a better map.Something we experienced

Re: [Talk-in] anything during this FOSS.IN?

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: Not sure if anyone has submitted anything, and am also not sure what could be covered in a talk or a workout. If you are going to be at the meeting, we can do an informal BoF set up then and there. Mini Mapping Party?

Re: [Talk-in] OSM Mapping party

Hello all, It was nice mapping around E City.I have added post event summary herehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Electronics_City_Mini_Mapping_Party_August_2009#Post_Event_Summary. The difference we made todayhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Bangalore_ECity_09Aug2009_Mapping_Party.png.