Re: [Talk-in] OSM birthday reception in Bengaluru on Monday

2015-08-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
The OSM India cake just got delivered! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:OSM_India_11_year_anniversary_cake.jpg On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > Hey everyone, we're cutting an OSM birthday cake at the Mapbox office in > Indiranagar tomorrow evening starting at 7pm. It

Re: [Talk-in] How to tag Sacred Groves (Devrai) in OSM?

2015-08-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
This is amazing, never knew about something like this. Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_groves_of_India The most appropriate tag might be: boundary=protected_area + protect_class=21 [1] which is for areas protected for religious reasons. This along with an appropriate natural tag like

[Talk-in] How to tag Sacred Groves (Devrai) in OSM?

2015-08-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
I was asked this question by Nikhil, who works on open Data in Pune, and I thought I should post this question to the OSM India Mailing list A Devrai (Sacred Grove) is many things at once: 1. A place of worship 2. A patch of forest / woodland 3. A community-led biodiversity conservation hotspot