Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread Shajeer Mohammed
09 21:59 To: talk-in@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India awesome work with the conversion, we finally have some good boundary data to work on. i compared the data with the state maps and the pc boundaries dont seem consistent with the districts as i had init

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 21:59:51 PlaneMad wrote: > Public Domain under MIT Style License which is self contradictory - Public Domain means no license at all - MIT style license is not public domain. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ __

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread PlaneMad
18:59 To: < > talk-in@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey > of India > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM, PlaneMad wrote:>> > > there are two scripts available in the osm svn to do the conversion>>>> > http://svn.open

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread Shajeer Mohammed
://finder.geocommons.com/overlays/download/4381.zip http://finder.geocommons.com/searches?limit=10&page=1&query=india Regards Shajeer -- From: "Raja Subramanian" Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:59 To: Subject: Re: [Talk-in] chenn

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM, PlaneMad wrote: > there are two scripts available in the osm svn to do the conversion > > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/shp2osm/ > > anyone want to give it a go? I used shp2osm.pl to convert: http://eci.nic.in/GisLayers/GIS_PC_Data.zip

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread PlaneMad
gt;> >> # AC Boundaries (Zipped SHAPE >> file):http://eci.nic.in/GisLayers/GIS_AC_Data.zip >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> From: "Kenneth Gonsalves" >> Sent: Wednesday, 18 Mar

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread PlaneMad
//eci.nic.in/GisLayers/GIS_PC_Data.zip > > # AC Boundaries (Zipped SHAPE > file):http://eci.nic.in/GisLayers/GIS_AC_Data.zip > > > > > > > -- > From: "Kenneth Gonsalves" > Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2009 13:

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread Shajeer Mohammed
9 13:28 To: Subject: Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India > On Wednesday 18 March 2009 12:58:42 PlaneMad wrote: >> that license is as encouraging as a drunk snail. is there absolutely no >> public domain map data for india anywhere? >> >> right now the electi

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread PlaneMad
goto http://eci.nic.in/ then add the GisLayers/gis_layers.asp to the url dont ask me why or how On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 18 March 2009 12:58:42 PlaneMad wrote: > > that license is as encouraging as a drunk snail. is there absolutely no > > public d

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 12:58:42 PlaneMad wrote: > that license is as encouraging as a drunk snail. is there absolutely no > public domain map data for india anywhere? > > right now the election comission seems to be the best bet > http://eci.nic.in/GisLayers/gis_layers.asp am just getting junk

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread PlaneMad
that license is as encouraging as a drunk snail. is there absolutely no public domain map data for india anywhere? right now the election comission seems to be the best bet http://eci.nic.in/GisLayers/gis_layers.asp On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 18 Mar

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 12:29:27 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 18 March 2009 12:24:39 H.S.Rai wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM, PlaneMad wrote: > > > ... but my contacts in the chennai corporation have > > > promised to share their information with me > > > > They will be a

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 12:24:39 H.S.Rai wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM, PlaneMad wrote: > > ... but my contacts in the chennai corporation have > > promised to share their information with me > > They will be able to share whatever possible legally. hows this: http://www.surveyofi

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-17 Thread H.S.Rai
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM, PlaneMad wrote: > ... but my contacts in the chennai corporation have > promised to share their information with me They will be able to share whatever possible legally. Indian Governments contribution to FOSS is to much. The visible name I can recall is BOSS, b

Re: [Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-17 Thread PlaneMad
i met the guys from NIC who are coordinating this project, at our stall at osi tech days. this data wont be available to the public, only to governmental agencies. but my contacts in the chennai corporation have promised to share their information with me once the map is ready, in another 2 months.

[Talk-in] chennai map from Survey of India

2009-03-17 Thread Raja Subramanian
Survey of India is talking about releasing a new digital map of Chennai. The map is to include street names, etc. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Chennai/Now-your-city-has-a-digital-map/rssarticleshow/4262380.cms Anyone know if this data set will be made publicly available or has any a