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 since 2006, via TIFR we have hostel, campus, lab > > > facilities if we are serious about SOTM Indi. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in > > > > > > Ishan, in Mumbai we can support visiting participants from all over > > > India and provide hostel at HBCSE depending on dates. Pradeep, what do > > > you suggest? I've cc-ed Mikel Maron from OpenStreetMap. > > > > > > Let's take this forward in connection with the Open Data folks in > > > Bangalore Datameet who are also into maps and geospatial. Thej and Nisha > > > are also cc-ed herewith. > > > > > > > gnowledge lab has recently acquired a deidated server for openstreetmap. Johnson, Sanjay, Sathyakam, Sajjad and Arun have already promised to maintain the server. (included them in cc since I am not sure if I am subscribed to the talk-in group. > > > > We need a separate map server since NCERT and TISS are currently doing big impact projects in open educational resources for school students and online courses for enhancing skills for undergraduate students. gnowledge lab is involved in both these projects. In the latter project we are already using open street map. Hundreds of students are being exposed to osm as a part of the course. In the coming three years, we are going to work with 50,000 undergraduate students across the country. Considering these are Govt of India supported projects we need to take care of the borders as per Indian Govt. Therefore the need to create custom maps. > > > > Arun is interested to do multi-lingual custom maps for school education. NCERT is also interested in this project. > > > > The server will be made available to installations on this Monday and hosted at osm.metaStudio.org. > Can we also perhaps point openstreetmap.in to the same server?
How's the server coming along? > > > Let us few of us meet this week. Arun is also in in Mumbai this week. > > > > -- > > GN
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