Quite interesting, while trying to clean up the mumbai map, i was wondering what to do with all those slum areas which form a huge part of the city. Its quite easy to identify slums areas on yahoo imagery as the structures have small roofs <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=19.04369&lon=72.8547&zoom=17>. And if ISRO is just planning to map slum land areas and not the insides, then we can do a much faster job than the govt, sitting at home and collaborating together on a particular city.
This is a very good opportunity to showcase the crowdsourcing abilities of osm for social causes to the Indian public as well as the govt. I'll have to apologize for working silently in the background with OSM data, on which i'll write about soon. But i have experienced first hand the absolutely HUGE void of geographic data in the country that so many different people from different areas need, and how OSM could help, but nobody knows about its existence! I suggest all of us get together and map all the slum area in mumbai that we can identify through yahoo imagery. I dont think it would take more than a few days if we all work together. If we have that data in, we could probably pull it out to make some very interesting infographic like comparing slums space to open space/parks and spread it virally through the internet to raise awareness about OSM, and possibly also to the govt. Anyone open to the idea? -arun On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Mikel Maron <mikel_ma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Anyone know more about this? > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/For-accurate-data-govt-plans-to-map-slums/articleshow/5574451.cms > > Sounds like they are only planning to use remote sensing techniques to > identify slum areas. On the ground OSM work would be ideal complement. And > that imagery ... imagine what else we could use it for! > > Any links here welcome, we have a long term view to look at Map Kibera like > projects in India. > > -Mikel > > == Mikel Maron == > +254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron > http://mapkibera.org/ > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- http://j.mp/ArunGanesh
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