[Talk-in] OSGeo India, FOSS4G Asia 2017 Open Geospatial Data

2016-09-14 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hi OSM India list, The OSGeo India dedicated to Open Geospatial Data and Open Geospatial Software tools is conducting it's 1st International conference. Pl give it a wide publicity and participate. http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2017/ Cheers Ravi Kumar

Re: [Talk-in] openstreetmap.in!

2015-05-14 Thread Ravi Kumar
Really commendable work. Ravi Kumar On Thu, 5/14/15, srinivas kodali iota.kod...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Talk-in] openstreetmap.in! To: OpenStreetMap in India talk-in@openstreetmap.org Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015, 8:48 AM This is awesome

[Talk-in] Roads classification

2015-03-29 Thread Ravi Kumar
display can also be in Indian languages. So crowd-sourcing may do well to follow Indian practices. Ex: A Village road can be Panchayath road.. and in turn Kucha road(fair weather road), Metal road etc. YES this requires knowledge of the area.. and this very list can help. Cheers Ravi Kumar

Re: [Talk-in] Bangalore mapping party on Sunday

2015-03-09 Thread Ravi Kumar
Great event to inspire other events. On Sun, 3/8/15, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Bangalore mapping party on Sunday To: talk-in@openstreetmap.org talk-in@openstreetmap.org Date: Sunday, March 8, 2015, 11:27 PM

Re: [Talk-in] Indian Railways coverage

2015-03-07 Thread Ravi Kumar
Looks promising. What is the plan/design in mind. Ultimately tracking a train (progress) might be part of your aim ! (?). Ravi On Sat, 3/7/15, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [Talk-in] Indian Railways coverage To:

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Ravi Kumar
Create a stylesheet, that will do.. On Tue, 1/27/15, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server To: OpenStreetMap in India talk-in@openstreetmap.org Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 2:12 AM 2. An OSM

Re: [Talk-in] SoI / DST complain against Google.

2014-12-19 Thread Ravi Kumar
This is a tricky issue, as OSM is used on both sides of a boarder and so, cannot be easily settled. http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/Souteast-Asia.pdf see this and this also shows various types of lines at our boarder. They display this apology too The boundaries and names shown

Re: [Talk-in] Karnataka Geoportal

2014-12-14 Thread Ravi Kumar
, Slums etc. Ex mana-rajahmundry.org this is based on OSM Plan for namma-mysuru.org are also on. Ravi Kumar On Sun, 12/14/14, Yogesh yog...@kalike.org wrote: Subject: [Talk-in] Karnataka Geoportal To: OpenStreetMap in India talk-in@openstreetmap.org Date

Re: [Talk-in] Events happening at Hyderabad

2014-11-23 Thread Ravi Kumar
Great to know this. Knowing OSMand for mapping (mobile) will be very useful. Add this on the agenda for any event of Acquaintance pl. Ravi Kumar On Sun, 11/23/14, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Events happening

[Talk-in] OSGeo India Mysuru event

2014-11-22 Thread Ravi Kumar
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#The_OSGeo_India_promoting_societal_GIS_for_the_city_of_Mysuru 3,4 Dec 2014. Welcome to join. Pl email Ravi ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-in] Hello everyone!

2014-11-18 Thread Ravi Kumar
Good to know that. We have an event at Mysuru(Mysure) 3,4 Dec 2014 mapping Mysore. Mysuru is 2 hrs from Banguluru. It is an initiation to finally go for a website for society like mana-rajahmundry.org. Pl participate .. Ravi Kumar Secretary, OSGeo India

[Talk-in] HudHud Vizag

2014-10-12 Thread Ravi Kumar
My Dear OSM enthusiasts at Ground Zero Visakhapatnam, This is the time to show-case OSM and OSMand, Pl update Through JOSM and let us exchange data, as GPX/KML such that relief workers can use them. Many people own Android phones unaware of the power at times like this. Ravi Kumar

Re: [Talk-in] City boundaries

2014-08-18 Thread Ravi Kumar
GIS in Indian administration is very patchy. Even survey of India and NATMO, do not deal with boundaries and if present there are on paper and to fit them to projection is a big task. On Monday, August 18, 2014 12:41 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On 8/17/2014 11:03 PM, Rémy

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Party in DSCE, Bangalore

2014-08-04 Thread Ravi Kumar
     Dump yards / Garbage bins near schools Ravi Kumar On Monday, August 4, 2014 11:11 PM, Yogi yog...@kalike.org wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 30 July 2014 12:54 AM, Vignesh Prabhu wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 23 July 2014 12:35 PM, Yogi wrote: As part of Free Software Movement Karnataka(fsmk)'s

Re: [Talk-in] pincode and area mapping?

2014-07-16 Thread Ravi Kumar
To make a shape file from Pincodes is a breeze in Qgis http://www.slideshare.net/ravivundavalli/pincode2qgis I have not covered how to save the result as a shape file.. or .. How to upload back to OSM Cheers Ravi Kumar On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:14 PM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com

Re: [Talk-in] pincode and area mapping?

2014-07-15 Thread Ravi Kumar
Public schools in India, with pincode.. you need at least the location in Lat/Long. 1. The following table helps in adding Lat/Long to the pincodes where ever pincodes match. http://pincode.datameet.org/download Populate your data to this for others to use. 2. Then use the resultant table as

[Talk-in] Societal GIS

2014-06-08 Thread Ravi Kumar
On a summer jaunt at Ooty tried OsmAnd and GpsEssentials for doing some societal GIS. Found the Android apps quite good and accurate. Environmentalists and Osmmers alike can chipin to make tourism more eco-friendly and heritage oriented.

Re: [Talk-in] State of the Map India

2014-04-20 Thread Ravi Kumar
2014. Any OSM enthusiasts are welcome to Join. Cheers Ravi Kumar On Sunday, April 20, 2014 6:38 PM, Paramvir Singh paramvi...@gmail.com wrote: Great idea. But before that can we have some mapping parties to build up some momentum? I see very very slow development for OSM in India. Perhaps we need

[Talk-in] Fw: OSGeo India activity

2014-01-30 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hi OSMers of India, OSM, through Josm is the main topic of this training for Societal GIS. OSGeo India had a 3 day Societal GIS training workshop in the south Indian 2nd tier city of Rajahmundry.

[Talk-in] (no subject)

2013-12-15 Thread Ravi Kumar
Dear all, Researchers / students may choose to attend a completely funded OSGeo India, FOSS GIS -3- week winter school at IIIT Hyderabad, India. We would like to request you to please send in Applications/Nominations (Indian Nationals) of potential participants who can benefit from attending

Re: [Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in

2013-10-24 Thread Ravi Kumar
Seems so. So we have to do the hard way..  Digital data is still taboo in GOI.  On Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:29 AM, Aditya Nag aditya.nag.2...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, this is the reply I got from Survey of India office when I asked for clarification of usage of surveykshan website- We

Re: [Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in

2013-10-05 Thread Ravi Kumar
Copy right and Free Geospatial data. The very fact that the data is made public, indicates that  1. The owner wants public to benefit from it. 2. To what extent the benefit should be, is left to the public, and no amount of policing can really help. I hope, wisdom will prevail one day and all

Re: [Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in

2013-10-04 Thread Ravi Kumar
It works .. tried just now using Chrome my default browser Ravi From: doc.ane...@gmail.com doc.ane...@gmail.com To: OpenStreetMap in India talk-in@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in

Re: [Talk-in] need volunteer for OSM workshop

2013-08-07 Thread Ravi Kumar
Source GIS).  2. Using JOSM which can work even without an internet connection (once you download requisite image) for many systems, is recommended. Using Qgis with OSM plugin is also a good option. Cheers Ravi Kumar From: Mallikarjun Javali mallikarjun.jav

[Talk-in] OSM training

2013-06-07 Thread Ravi Kumar
, Rajahmundry introduced OSM to the young crowd. The session included OSM mapping of Chirala town.   http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=4879556with_photo_id=91433249order=date_desc Ravi Kumar ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-in] Geoheritage

2013-06-03 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hope we can have OSM include photos of Geoheritage sites. Any suggestions about a Free and Open Source website (digital globe) that can do. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#National_Workshop_and_Brainstorming_Session_on_Geoheritaze.2C_.27Need_for_Activism.27_30.2C31_May_2013

[Talk-in] OSM for OOTY Tamilnadu

2013-04-14 Thread Ravi Kumar
Will be at Ooty for a week armed with a GPS laptop etc. Want to add some more to OSM there. period: 6th May 11th May 2013. Suggestions and friends to join are welcome Ravi Kumar___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-in] Bangalore Map

2011-08-14 Thread Ravi Kumar
. May be you want a GIS vector layer ( a map in logical terms), with attribute information Then Digitise the line work on OSM -- Import the line work (OSM to your computer) -- Use any FOSS4G toll like Qgis, GvSig, OpenJUMP to make it a shape file, with attributes etc.. cheers Ravi Kumar

Re: [Talk-in] OSM in Mangalore?

2011-06-13 Thread Ravi Kumar
Is this a request for 'Acquaintance / Traninig', at Mangalore. Pl clarify Ravi From: VIGNESH PRABHU stove311...@gmail.com To: talk-in@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2011 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [Talk-in] OSM in Mangalore? Hi, I will glad if we can

Re: [Talk-in] New SoI Maps

2011-05-29 Thread Ravi Kumar
Open Series maps (Paper prints) of SOI are on 1:5 scale (2cm = 1 km), and this is actually not a news, but may be an emphasis on road net work might be. Ravi From: Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com To: talk-in@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, May 28,