Re: [Talk-in] Adding missing towns and villages to OSM

2015-11-25 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Hi Jothirnadh, Can you please point us to the license info of the nga.mil server you mentioned in the blog? In case it is not of appropriate license, we cannot import into OSM. I believe geonames.org data is not of suitable license (others can correct me if I'm wrong). Is the data at the nga.mil

Re: [Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

2015-05-15 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Bhuvan has a TMS/WMS layer, iirc, which can be used with JOSM. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:35 PM, GN nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: We checked Bhuvan today to get some idea. We found that they also use Id editor for community contributions. We are trying to get the high resolution satellite

Re: [Talk-in] India Postal Map

2015-03-27 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
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 wrote: There is a lot of pincode data for major towns and villages in India hidden

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-27 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Shekhar Krishnan shek...@topomancy.com wrote: Johnson has access to the same server where OHM is hosted, known as hackercoop, which is a community server provided courtesy of

Re: [Talk-in] Introduction

2014-11-07 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Since you are there, can you take a gps tracker to a few of these locations? That might give ua a more authoritative source for offset correction. Btw, I hope you meant Bing imagery, not their mapping service. Thanks for your work! Have a good trip here! Regards, Ishan Sent from my Windows

Re: [Talk-in] Quality of satellite imagery

2014-06-03 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
All the satellite imagery comes from Bing, as per their timelines. Which areas do you see cloud covering? Can we detail all such places so that we can keep an eye going forward? On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Prasanth Rajan rajanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Is there a time-bound update of

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

2014-04-21 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Sajjad Anwar m...@sajjad.in wrote: On Apr 19, 2014 10:46 PM, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Sunday 20 Apr 2014 12:12:17 AM Shekhar Krishnan wrote: Thanks to our long-standing work evangelising OpenStreetMap and FOSS GIS at HBCSE/TIFR

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

2014-04-19 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Just a thought: No place less exotic than the northeast of the country should suffice for our first SOTM-India. Whatsay? On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Shekhar Krishnan shek...@topomancy.comwrote: Pradeep: Yes we can always do this at HBCSE/TIFR http://www.hbce.tifr.res.in in Mumbai,

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

2013-10-04 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Unless the pwd data is released at an open license, I suggest we not use it for osm mapping in any way. Sent from my Nokia Lumia (Windows Phone) From: Yogi Sent: 04-10-2013 23:03 To: OpenStreetMap in India Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in On Friday 04 October 2013 01:54 PM,

Re: [Talk-in] 2013 North India Floods : Follow-up and mapping coordination

2013-06-24 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Manager Jobs Harsil area http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/263 Badrinath and Mana http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/264 wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods -- *De :* Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com *À :* Pierre Béland pierz

Re: [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India

2013-06-23 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
a bounding box for the region, then can set up a job on the tasking server http://tasks.hotosm.org/ * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron -- *From:* Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com *To:* Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com; OpenStreetMap

Re: [Talk-in] [HOT] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India

2013-06-23 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
...@yahoo.com To: Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com; OpenStreetMap in India talk-in@openstreetmap.org Cc: h...@openstreetmap.org h...@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sunday, 23 June 2013, 5:24 Subject: Re: [HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc

Re: [Talk-in] 2013 North India Floods : Follow-up and mapping coordination

2013-06-23 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
are provided about this emergency. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods Pierre -- *De :* Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr *À :* Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com *Cc :* OpenStreetMap in India talk-in@openstreetmap.org; h

Re: [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India

2013-06-22 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Let us do something! Anyone has any pointers how can we start (in an organized fashion)? Can someone please take a lead to start a mapping sprint towards helping map the affected regions? Mikel? On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Some response to the

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping do's and don'ts

2013-06-09 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Specifically, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#What_images_and_maps_may_I_use_to_make_maps_from.3F Regards, user:chatman On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com wrote: I think some of your questions are addressed here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-in] Police investigating Google's mapathon

2013-04-05 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
I 3 Delhi Police ;-) On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Are people on this list carefully avoiding discussing this? -

Re: [Talk-in] What just happened?

2013-01-25 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Lets do it! Sent from my Nokia Lumia / Windows Phone From: paramvi...@gmail.com Sent: 26-01-2013 12:35 To: OpenStreetMap in India Subject: Re: [Talk-in] What just happened? That's good news. Can the mappers come together so we can have meetups? Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original

Re: [Talk-in] Participatory OSM in Pune

2012-12-13 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Good presentation. Clearly demonstrates the need for a format definition of an extended tagset for India. Any proposals so far? Did the researcher publish any list of tags she felt needed for her work? On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Just wanted to

Re: [Talk-in] Rate Roads

2012-11-28 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
pretty nice.. i liked the concept, might be good to tie data back to OSM. hated that it didn't allow me to seee ratings 17 zoom level.. but overall pretty nice, will use it a bit more! On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: When I said 'rating data' I was

Re: [Talk-in] Any OpenStreet Mapping Party in Bangalore?

2012-09-12 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Hi Vignesh, I would say having ordinary GPS enabled smartphones is just fine for most mapping activity one would like to take up. A clear view to sky will bring in desired precision. Adding more POIs (shops etc.) and tagging more unnamed streets could be a start for the mapping party. Regards,

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

2012-02-06 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
names now. Just like Bengaluru and Mysuru. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It seems there are following inconsistencies: Official name, Name on the map Shimoga, Shivamoga Dharwad, Dharwada Hubli, Hubballi I think

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

2012-02-06 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
are nic sites :) On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com wrote: Based on these official websites and the text therein, I felt that the official names are as they have it: http://www.dharwad.nic.in/ http://shimoga.nic.in/ http://www.hdmc.gov.in/ http

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

2012-02-06 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Thanks for the background, Kiran. After reading your note and also looking around the web for other discussions like these, I am even more convinced than ever before that OSM should go with the central government approved names. These name changes look perfectly legitimate to me on the map:

[Talk-in] Use of official names for cities

2012-02-05 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Hi all, It seems there are following inconsistencies: Official name, Name on the map Shimoga, Shivamoga Dharwad, Dharwada Hubli, Hubballi I think this is downright confusing for people who aren't aware of these alternate names. Shall we not try to stick to the official names (as per Govt.

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

2012-01-18 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
+1 Even I observed it in a few places. I support this. :-) 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:

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

2012-01-18 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, most people have been using the following convention: [name] = Native language [name:en] = Latin character [name:hi] =

Re: [Talk-in] OSM-India: No map

2011-10-23 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Didn't know it existed. Why not ask them directly ( http://nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in/contacts/)? On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:36 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com wrote: I can see the map tiles rendering

Re: [Talk-in] Bangalore Map

2011-08-13 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Your best bet is the stable APIs from MapQuest to access the OSM services like geocoding, search, directions etc. http://developer.mapquest.com/ Regards, Ishan On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:09 PM, H.S.Rai h...@raiandrai.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:54 PM, PRAMOD.Y.V shastry