Hi Prabhas, Thanks for bringing www.openstreetmap.org (OSM) to this list.
I studied openstreetmap for my PhD dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and will be happy to share my experience. I will be in Kathmandu in the second week of July. Let me know if you are interested to meet face-to-face and discuss more on this. Nama On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Prabhas Pokharel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey FOSS community, > I am reaching out because I wanted to work on developing OSM ( > http://openstreetmap.org)[1] further for Nepal, and we have some interest > from organizations who own significant GIS data to donate that to OSM. > > Once everything becomes a bit clearer, I also want to reach out to the > larger group, and see if there is interest to give demos of OSM, how to > edit, why OSM is cool, and building FOSS map software using OSM as base > layer. > *But before then*, I wanted to reach out to ask if anyone has already been > working on OSM-related activities in Nepal, and can assist us (I have been > working with Jwalanta Shrestha and Jitendra Harlalka a bit) with the process > of finalizing both the data donation process and the data import. What I am > looking for is someone who either already has OSM/GIS experience, or who > wants to build some of that knowledge (not hard to do), or just loves maps. > Basiclaly, we will create a small team that will then continue the process > of finalizing this process of data import, and make OSM a very viable and > usable base layer of maps for Nepal. > > So, whos in? > > [1] - OpenStreetMap, for those who don't know is the freely editable and > community maintained map of the world, the Wikipedia of maps, if you would. > It is the basis of any FOSS mapping applications, because it has generic > licensing terms (did you know that you can't make offline cache of google > map images?) and is community maintained like FOSS projects. In fact, many > FOSS groups around the world have OSM as one of their primary activities. > > Prabhas Pokharel > http://twitter.com/prabhasp > Nepal mobile: +977 98137 91044 > US mobile: +1 347 948 7654 > skype/facebook/whatever: prabhasp > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nama R. Budhathoki, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill University, Canada http://budhathoki.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
