On Thursday 21 Jan 2010 12:15:31 pm Tanveer Singh wrote: > > On Thursday 21 Jan 2010 11:47:46 am satyaakam goswami wrote: > > > > Street Map Foundation of United Kingdom. Dr. H.S.Rai, Professor of > > > > Civil Engineering is Project Leader in India and Prof. Asif Rasul is > > > > Project Leader in Pakistan. The duration of project is one year. > > > > > > kudos way to go , i think we can highlight and get more mileage fi we > > > can somehow align with efforts from press like > > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/amankiasha.cms in the press , what > > > > you > > > > > say? > > > > oops, forgot to add - how can we contribute? > > -- > > I guess, you can start by mapping major highways that are visible in Rural > maps. > Infact at many places volunteers have ensured that google maps lags behind > OSM. > For example Chandigarh bypass to Ropar direct from punjab border. > > Since most roads(highways) are arrow straight, mapping with help of > satellite imagery is easy. However beware, there are lots of man made > inland waterways, which look very much like roads from above. Take care > about them! >
nice to see you back! I think that since this project has some official status it could be used to gouge the Bhuvan imagery out of the GOI. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
