[OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread Arun Ganesh
I recently got addicted to mapping the railway network in India in detail using landsat imagery. Since i wasnt able to find any other railway mapping project which specified detailed mapping conventions, i came up with my own scheme which i've compiled here:

[OSM-talk] osmosis pbf issues

2012-01-02 Thread Arun Ganesh
I have been trying to process pbf files without luck in osmosis. When i run: osmosis --read-pbf india.osm.pbf --write-xml india.osm osmosis quits with: SEVERE: Execution aborted. org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.OsmosisRuntimeException: Task type read-pbf doesn't exist. I installed osmosis 0.39

[OSM-talk] Imagery parallax error in high altitude areas

2012-04-01 Thread Arun Ganesh
It recently struck me while identifying mountain peaks in the himalayas that something may not be right. All of us have noticed that the top of skyscrapers is off from the base of the building owing to parallax error of the satellite capturing the image at an angle. The average seems to be around

Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-07 Thread Arun Ganesh
Its the edits that mess up the existing data and make it difficult to undo that are most undesirable: 1) If the user is new, these would usually be in the first few changesets: a) untagged ways not connected to anything b) ways that are shifted c) single node shifted way out of place d) untagged

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery parallax error in high altitude areas

2012-04-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
It's not as bad as it seems. Imagery is adjusted using an elevation dataset. Since this data doesn't (and shouldn't) include buildings and bridges, these appear distorted. You'll also see problems where recent heavy construction has caused changes in topography. Yes, but every pixel is not

[OSM-talk] Wikimapia data now under cc-by-sa

2012-06-14 Thread Arun Ganesh
Before you get all excited, I do not think its what it sounds like. See the official announcement here: http://wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=9878 I'm not certain what this 'wikimapia data' is or where it can be downloaded from. But it seems to be that this could be the placemark

[OSM-talk] Lost tags

2012-07-28 Thread Arun Ganesh
What was the license status of tags added by an odbl-compliant user on geometries created by a user who declined? While its ok for the geometries to be deleted, it does not seem right that the tags are deleted as well. It is after all the work of someone who has agreed to relicense his

Re: [OSM-talk] Lost tags

2012-07-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:39:56 +0530 Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: It is quite painful to see that countless hours of effort has been deleted for no fault of my own. Is this just the result of the osm

[OSM-talk] OSM Data layers

2012-09-20 Thread Arun Ganesh
/OSM_Layers Once again, I have no technical knowledge to reply to any questions on how this will work, but I hope someone can take something out from it and fix OSM for the better. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM

2012-09-24 Thread Arun Ganesh
I had started this page a few days back to write down the ideas I have had on OSM layers for quite a while: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Layers It would be a good idea to list out the different approaches to the layer problem on the wiki so that we can compare ideas. -- Arun Ganesh

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
Resources invested in hosting various useful tile layers and tools would only help in getting more people to switch to openstreetmaps and support the project. Why can't we have a larger donation drive and support such services which are central to the project and helps its growth? -- Arun

Re: [OSM-talk] International Boundaries from Department of State

2011-09-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
Regarding the administrative boundaries, why is there no mention of the GADM dataset[1] as a potential data source? Its the most accurate and detailed public domain set of worldwide boundaries that I have come across. [1]http://www.gadm.org/ -- j.mp/ArunGanesh

Re: [OSM-talk] International Boundaries from Department of State

2011-09-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: The terms of use say only for non-commercial use, which is not acceptable for use in OSM Ah missed that, the page on wikipedia said public domain. There's surprisingly scarce info about the GADM project, no mention of

Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
I am totally blown away by the level of detail provided by the map providers in Korea. Even the navigation devices they use in almost any vehicle is of a much higher level than anything I have seen outside. As the car approaches a flyover or a junction, the device actually renders a 3d view of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
providers display a different set of boundaries based on the laws of the user's country. But for OSM, it would probably a very simple solution if we have a lowzoom tileset which don't have any international borders. Would that be a good idea? -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
) would solve the issue much more easily rather than requiring everyone affected to setup their own tileservers. This issue affects half the global internet population and is a definite barrier against the global adoption of this project. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[OSM-talk] Visualizing mapping history of an area

2014-05-20 Thread Arun Ganesh
could not find anything on the wiki except proposals[3]. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Party_render [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/20.12429/72.91856 [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History_API_and_Database -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Visualizing mapping history of an area

2014-05-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: The area of interest is a small town called Talasari, north of Mumbai [2]. The students had very low experience with computers and most had

Re: [OSM-talk] Visualizing mapping history of an area

2014-05-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
was looking for. Thank you Ben! -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Status of Field Papers

2014-11-09 Thread Arun Ganesh
resources to fork the project at the moment, but it would be greatly appreciated if anyone can provide alternate solutions in the short term to continue to use field papers or a similar service to get more people to map. [1] http://fieldpapers.org/ -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Status of Field Papers

2014-11-13 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Alan McConchie alan.mcconc...@gmail.com wrote: Atlas creation on Field Papers is back up again! Sorry everyone for the extended downtime! Wonderful, thank you for the effort! -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp

Re: [Talk-in] Mumbai Map Cleanup

2010-04-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
I just checked out the area, and it is littered with untagged nodes (43,000?http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4362880), like you said, the building geomentry is broken and there are no segments connecting the nodes :( Regarding using the mumbai freemap as a base, i have still not been

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Miriyalguda and other places in AP

2010-04-13 Thread Arun Ganesh
Done. Uma, it would be great if you could do a comprehensive tracing of the town and cover most of the roads. Im assuming doing that for a place like Miryalaguda would just take an hour. If we can make a skeletal map of the street network you can start using http://walking-papers.org/ to take

Re: [Talk-in] Visthar and CIS office at Banagalore: Mapping help

2010-04-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Shajeer Mohammed shaj...@hotmail.comwrote: You can use this site and enter the bus route number 295 - http://www.btis.in/ to see the route map. The Dodda Gubi village is shown here -

Re: [Talk-in] Visthar and CIS office at Banagalore: Mapping help

2010-04-24 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:24 AM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=13.06815mlon=77.65975zoom=15layers=B000FTF im guessing its the cluster of buildings, dont see anything

Re: [Talk-in] Visthar and CIS office at Banagalore: Mapping help

2010-04-24 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:51 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: is there a way to get a hybrid view of osm maps and yahoo imagery? http://freegeographytools.com/2010/overlay-openstreet-map-data

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Miriyalguda and other places in AP

2010-04-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Uma Ramana Rao uma.ramana...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Arun, More traces uploaded. Will reply back to your email later. Regards Uma Done. The town is coming out nicely. Ive also used landsat satellite imagery to trace some of the village roads around the town.

[Talk-in] Mapping the Indian Railway network using high resolution Landsat imagery

2010-04-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
If nobody's noticed already, i've been adding a significant amount of railway lines in Southern India. Infact the entire railway network of Tamil Nadu and Kerala are in. It should start rendering in low zoom in a week i guess. You can check out an extract of the railway network processed with qgis

Re: [Talk-in] WMS Plugin in JOSM: Error

2010-04-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
For yahoo, you need the webkit. see this http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/WMSPlugin Landsat should work, maybe there's a temporary overload On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Sajjad Anwar sajja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have enabled the WMS plugin in JOSM. But when I try loading

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping the Indian Railway network using high resolution Landsat imagery

2010-04-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: well, I travelled from coimbatore-pollachi-dindigul-madurai, the tracks were there - but no trains. broadgauge conversion is going on.

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping the Indian Railway network using high resolution Landsat imagery

2010-05-02 Thread Arun Ganesh
A more interesting visualization of the IR network with the age of the edits http://www.flickr.com/photos/arunganesh/4570968389/ -- http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Miriyalguda and other places in AP

2010-05-04 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Uma Ramana Rao uma.ramana...@gmail.comwrote: Arun, Can you send me walking papers, I will see what I can do with them. Regards Uma Uma, see if this is ok http://walking-papers.org/print.php?id=h4k4tvtv otherwise you can create one yourself from

Re: [Talk-in] Date of update

2010-05-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:15 PM, H.S.Rai h...@raiandrai.com wrote: For openstreetmap.in, is it possible to have information somewhere in the form: Last data updated on Sun May 23 02:13:11 IST 2010, and tiles rendering finished at Sun May 23 12:13:11 IST 2010 -- H.S.Rai Nice, i thought

Re: [Talk-in] Disturbing boundaries in FOSM

2010-05-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2010 07:22:32 Arunmozhi wrote: I am using fosm to add some details in a city map. Someone has marked a boundary around that area and the fosm editor is displaying some sort of transparent

Re: [Talk-in] State Of Country Posters - Deadline 8/07/2010 10AM

2010-07-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
I had nominated Sajjad Anwar for the sotm scholarship and was hoping he would go, considering his efforts with geohackers.in and heritage walks, but sadly he didnt get selected. Not sure if there is anyone from India, atleast as part of the scholarship. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:19 PM, H.S.Rai

Re: [Talk-in] mapping party at Pycon India 2010

2010-07-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: hi, calling pythonistas among us who may be attending pycon India - how about a meet up and a mapping party - I have 3 extra instruments. I'm a stones throw away from the venue,i'm in. But this is happening on sept

Re: [Talk-in] GPS for sale

2010-07-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
I guess he meant off the list :) On a related note, if anyone in Bangalore has someone coming in from US and can arrange for a HOLUX M241http://www.holux.com/JCore/en/products/products_content.jsp?pno=341logger, please let me know. Or does anyone recommend any other bluetooth data logger? On

Re: [Talk-in] GPS for sale

2010-07-13 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Ajay Shah ajays...@mayin.org wrote: I felt having two devices is a better option while doing long distance travelling. Atleast you dont have to worry about your phone's battery dying because of gps. And since i usually move aroud with my backpack i switch

Re: [Talk-in] GPS for sale

2010-07-14 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ajay Shah ajays...@mayin.org wrote: I have put the Holux through some heavy duty use in Himachal and Kashmir recently and never had any problems apart from eating batteries. I did not have a high capacity rechargeable battery at hand, so had to buy

Re: [Talk-in] Renumbering National Highways

2010-07-19 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways have released the new scientific numbering scheme[1]. We need to decide if we should move to the new numbering form or not. Also i think its better to have the

Re: [Talk-in] GPS tracks galore near madanapalle

2010-07-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
wrote: Can I dig in and map those GPS traces, If you haven't done them? by Arunmozhi tecohol...@gmail.com On 7/20/10, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Discovered a whole bunch of unmapped gps tracks near Madanapalle, APhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=13.6343mlon=78.4479zoom

Re: [Talk-in] mapping party at Pycon India 2010

2010-07-22 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: I have started the process of mapping from yahoo imagery: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=13.03091lon=77.56634zoom=17layers=M I am having some eye trouble, so can others help out also? If we do the preliminary stuff

Re: [Talk-in] Shooting OSM for CNN-IBN in Bangalore -reg

2010-07-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
Cubbon park sounds like a good place for this. I'm in :) On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Alagesa Pandian alg...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I have been approached by the CNN-IBN reporter for a Shooting of Open Street Mapping in Bangalore, for a program they intend to broadcast on Coming

Re: [Talk-in] Specific tags for India

2010-07-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
Has anyone created a page on the OSM wiki for this before? we need to list these down instead of keeping it in the mails. Since i have never been a part of any of the proposal requests, im not sure how it works. It looks a bit unorganised. Do we keep a separate page under India/Proposed_features?

[Talk-in] Custom styled OSM map

2010-10-22 Thread Arun Ganesh
I've been playing around with a new tool called maperitivehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitivelately which renders osm data on the fly and allows you to specifiy custom map rules. I'm developing a map style which is a lot more cleaner than the default mapnik one, you can check out the

Re: [Talk-in] Custom styled OSM map

2010-10-22 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: I've been playing around with a new tool called maperitivehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitivelately which renders osm data

[Talk-in] Daily OSM India extract now available from geofabrik

2010-10-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
After i sent a request to geofabrik for India osm extracts, they are now available and are updated every day. download: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/asia/ The extract is in a highly compressed pbfhttp://blog.geofabrik.de/?m=201009format and only 14mb in size (uncompressed size is ~500mb) The

[Talk-in] Vembanad lake converted to coastlines

2010-11-09 Thread Arun Ganesh
I just converted the salt water portion of Vembanad lake/Kochi area up till the Thanneermukkom barrage to coastlines. There was a lot of inconsistency in the rendering of the small islands with the previous water multipolygon tags. Now it should be easier to mark the wetlands/inundated farms in

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-25 Thread Arun Ganesh
The areas that are skewed are same as that of landsat imagery, a very weird phenomenon. I've noticed this in coimbatore and kanniyakumari districts so far. To use the imagery, correct the offset by aligning it to the downloaded gps traces. In josm, right click the imagery layer in the layers

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-25 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 18:25 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I checked it against tracks made by my metre accurate GPS instrument. Kenneth, how did you measure the gps accuracy? chennai seems accurate - but it

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 12:32 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 18:56 +0530, Arun Ganesh wrote: To use the imagery, correct the offset by aligning it to the downloaded gps traces. In josm

[Talk-in] Atlas style using maperitive

2011-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
Preview of a style file i have been working on for rendering Indian osm data: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arunganesh/5389304805/ It uses the motorroad=yes tag that i proposed to show upgraded highways instead of using the motorway tag ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Tags/Highway). I

Re: [Talk-in] Kerala LSG map

2011-04-16 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Is there way to mark LSG, assembly constituency and lokshaba constituency in OSM ? This is map created for LSG by Kerala govt http://itmission.kerala.gov.in/igsg.html Data:-

Re: [Talk-in] Kerala LSG map

2011-04-16 Thread Arun Ganesh
I'm not sure if its a very good idea to have constituency boundaries in osm. They change often with each delimitation and overlap over district/subdistrict borders which in my opinion are a lot more important. If we do get the shapefiles, we can atleast upload it to

[Talk-in] NRSC Landuse data in public domain

2011-05-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
I just found out that the IRS based 1:1M land cover data for India is in the public domain from ISRO's National remote sensing centre. 1:1M Landuse mapviewer: http://applications.nrsc.gov.in/mapview.asp Data use policy: http://applications.nrsc.gov.in/policy.asp I am going to send them a mail to

Re: [Talk-in] NRSC Landuse data in public domain

2011-05-12 Thread Arun Ganesh
(in charge geoinformatics) yesterday, asking how we can use the data in an external application. No response yet. Why dont you try shooting a mail to the director as well? S.K. On 05/11/2011 02:35 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: I just found out that the IRS based 1:1M land cover data for India

Re: [Talk-in] NRSC Landuse data in public domain

2011-06-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:04 PM, H.S.Rai h...@raiandrai.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: There's some great news, I just received an email from Dr Harish (Scientist at NRSA) that the WMS service for India's landuse data is now live [1

Re: [Talk-in] NRSC Landuse data in public domain

2011-06-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:31 PM, H.S.Rai h...@raiandrai.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: * Login to http://applications.nrsc.gov.in/query.asp OK The site displays: This site is best viewed in Internet Explorer 5.0 and above. Please

Re: [Talk-in] NRSC Landuse data in public domain

2011-07-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
I managed to download the LULC layer but when I try to download in JOSM, I get a message Sorry! No data available in this scale. This is for very low zoom levels i.e.1 inch = 1 km Any idea why? Shalabh The imagery is for even lower zoom levels since its on the 1:1million scale. I

Re: [Talk-in] NRSC Landuse data in public domain

2011-07-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Shalabh shalab...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: I managed to download the LULC layer but when I try to download in JOSM, I get a message Sorry! No data available in this scale

[Talk-in] The new CT/ODBL license

2011-07-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
There has been a firestorm on the main lists regarding the ODBL migration, so I thought of bringing it up here, since we are now on the verge of the change. In short this is what's happening with the osm license: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/About_The_License_Change And here is the

Re: [Talk-in] Mumbai Brownfields

2011-08-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Shekhar Krishnan shek...@mit.edu wrote: All: I noticed activity in Mumbai recently by Arun Ganesh (PlaneMad) where a lot of landuse:brownfield areas are being traced around various villages, koliwadas, wadis, slums and mixed-use and industrial settlements

Re: [Talk-in] Mumbai Brownfields

2011-08-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Shekhar Krishnan shek...@mit.edu wrote: Here is a study I participated in several years ago on Housing Typologies in Mumbai: http://www.urban-age.net/0_downloads/House_Types_in_Mumbai.pdf Thanks Shekhar, that was a very useful report in understanding how

Re: [Talk-in] No aerial images

2011-11-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: hi Arun, Thanks for the confirmation. So, now the only way I can edit the region around Bharuch is using a GPS reciever. Or is there any way I can request for an aerial mapping or satellite imagery of the

[Talk-in] ISRO using osm data

2011-11-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
While playing around with bhuvan, i found out that their wms layers of national highways and hospital were actually made using osm data. I did a quick comparison to verify: http://bitterscotch.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/isro-sees-utility-of-openstreetmap-data/ Its good to see that ISRO/NRSA has an

Re: [Talk-in] ISRO using osm data

2011-11-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
at bhuvan. I was probably the only user this month :) There are two levels of high res imagery for bangalore, which are slightly offset with each other by around 20m. And josm just allows you to make a LOT more edits than potlatch. On 28 November 2011 02:22, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com

[Talk-in] Indic place names in [name] tags

2012-01-18 Thread Arun Ganesh
I have been trying to render maps from the osm data and the multilingual place names in the [name] tags has been an issue. There are all sorts of formats: [latin], [latin local], [local latin], [latin (local)], [local (latin)], [local]. I feel for the sake of consistency, only the latin name be

Re: [Talk-in] Indic place names in [name] tags

2012-01-18 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, most people have been using the following convention: [name] = Native language [name:en] = Latin character [name:hi] = Local name Nominatim is capable of searching a name whatever the namespace is.

Re: [Talk-in] [Event] Night of the living maps - virtual global mapping party 07.02.2012

2012-01-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: How about we fix the Mumbai data? :D If there's any interest from other bombay people in this, happy to host an event at our space in Khar (CAMP), where we'll get coffee and wifi and can map all night :) Let

Re: [Talk-in] Use of official names for cities

2012-02-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
I always look to wikipedia for reference as there are always more people debating these things over there and reaching a consensus. Correct me if im wrong, but i do think Shivamoga, Hubbali etc are the official names now. Just like Bengaluru and Mysuru. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Ishan

Re: [Talk-in] Use of official names for cities

2012-02-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
/ http://www.mysore.nic.in/ However, I'm sure there must be some official government list of city names available somewhere. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: I always look to wikipedia for reference as there are always more people debating

Re: [Talk-in] Use of official names for cities

2012-02-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
other country as well? Regards, Ishan On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: I always look to wikipedia for reference as there are always more people debating these things over

[Talk-in] Mumbai mapping party at Bandra on Feb 21

2012-02-18 Thread Arun Ganesh
Happening this Tuesday, do share it and join in if in town. Details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Events/Mumbai_Mapping_Party1 We also hope to fix the Mumbai AND data, feel free to join in remotely if you can. -- j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in

Re: [Talk-in] India : Shapefile villages of Assam

2012-04-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Loïc - picaspl...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, *I'm looking for a shapefile for Assam (India).* I'm interested in a vector file at a* villages level *to cross data with the Census of India. I already found this kind of layer on Bhuvan which offers a WMS

[Talk-in] Fwd: NSDI Geoportal

2012-04-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
I stumbled upon the National Spatial Data Infrastructure site which 'aspires' to put a lot of geodata into public domain for the benefit of the public. I got pretty excited and made an account hoping to find something new, but it became some kind of extreme internet hurdle test to get anything to

Re: [Talk-in] Fwd: NSDI Geoportal

2012-04-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:27 PM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.comwrote: For your pleasure, if anyone has some free time and would like to know how bad websites are made: http://nsdiindia.gov.in/ “NSDI” means NSDI Inc., whose principal place of business is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,

Re: [Talk-in] visiting bangalore/bengaluru

2012-04-16 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Rich ric...@nakts.net wrote: On 04/13/12 06:01, Sajjad Anwar wrote: Dear Rich, Great news. I'm right now in my home town and will be back on Sunday. Let's catch up during one of the weekdays in the evening? thanks, great. i'm pretty much available

Re: [Talk-in] Classifying places - cities, towns and villages

2012-05-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:47 PM, doc.ane...@gmail.com doc.ane...@gmail.comwrote: I vote for 2 separate cities (if each is of population 100k+) else towns(if less than 100k) A city is not defined by its population, but by other factors like economic productivity, administration , civic

Re: [Talk-in] Classifying places - cities, towns and villages

2012-05-14 Thread Arun Ganesh
that it is an district headquarter. Thanks, indigomc On 11 May 2012 06:22, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Indigomc, let me recap, because we are going in circles: What should not be done is to divert a generally understood global designation such as 'city' that already has the neutral

[Talk-in] Data loss due to license change

2012-07-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
I think the osm redaction bot has finished cleaning up India and removed all non-odbl data. From this: http://odbl.de/india.html , I think we lost roughly 2% of the data due to the license switch, a good part being in central and south Bangalore, due to user:pynam and user:chfrangers who did not

Re: [Talk-in] Monuments of India - geographical co-ordinates?

2012-08-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I'm a Wikipedian from India. We're doing a competition this September called Wiki Loves Monuments (an effort through a competition to get pics of various Indian monuments on Wikipedia). We scraped the

Re: [Talk-in] Monuments of India - geographical co-ordinates?

2012-08-28 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 August 2012 22:03, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I'm a Wikipedian from India. We're doing a competition

Re: [Talk-in] Monuments of India - geographical co-ordinates?

2012-08-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Using OSM is easy once you have the coordinates, but I'm wondering how they synced the monument list with the coordinates in the first

Re: [Talk-in] Monuments of India - geographical co-ordinates?

2012-08-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
makes finding these structures a bit of a hunt. What can be done with the available data is to get coordinates to the town/village level and map those which are not on osm. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad Geography.Information.Design

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Metro routes of kolkata

2012-10-07 Thread Arun Ganesh
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Re: [Talk-in] Mappy hour?

2012-11-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
on Saturday or Sunday. m: 90366 26854 Sajjad, wish we could have swung through Bangalore this trip, but not enough time. * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron -- *From:* Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com *To:* Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com; talk

Re: [Talk-in] Mappy hour?

2012-11-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
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Re: [Talk-in] Rivers

2013-01-04 Thread Arun Ganesh
anyone know where one can find the details of rivers of Karnataka? ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http

Re: [Talk-in] Rivers

2013-01-04 Thread Arun Ganesh
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Re: [Talk-in] What just happened?

2013-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
/talk-in Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh

Re: [Talk-in] What just happened?

2013-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
...@gmail.com doc.ane...@gmail.comwrote: Karnataka is distinctly better than the neighbouring states... :) Sent from my HTC ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad

Re: [Talk-in] What just happened?

2013-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
Is anybody aware of what happened? I suspect it was mostly the Germans. They work much better than machines :D On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: I have been making updates mostly on a larger scale: river system, highway system, railways system

Re: [Talk-in] What just happened?

2013-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: Is anybody aware of what happened? I suspect it was mostly the Germans. They work much better than machines :D On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: I have been making updates

Re: [Talk-in] What just happened?

2013-01-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
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Re: [Talk-in] Master City: Let's play with OpenStreetMap

2013-02-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
of the settings. Mario Danelli ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh

Re: [Talk-in] Police investigating Google's mapathon

2013-04-05 Thread Arun Ganesh
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Re: [Talk-in] Relation tags for archaeological sites

2013-04-12 Thread Arun Ganesh
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Re: [Talk-in] Relation tags for archaeological sites

2013-04-13 Thread Arun Ganesh
... I won't use it unless it's convincing Sent from my HTC ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp

Re: [Talk-in] Relation tags for archaeological sites

2013-04-13 Thread Arun Ganesh
, who would be very interested in this if there was documentation on relevant resources and how someone can contribute. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: Just looked up tag info. building:style looks relevant. http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/building

Re: [Talk-in] Moving place=village tags in Odisha

2013-09-02 Thread Arun Ganesh
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