Incredible work everyone.. the level of detail looks amazing. Re: names... do the more institutionally connected mappers among us have any thoughts? Nama ji? Anil ji?
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Aashish Tripathee < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm really surprised that there are streets without names. Naming it > ourselves might not be such a bad idea in my opinion but we need to get the > people living around there use the same name. If we're successful at doing > that, even if the government keeps the names later on, they'll be bound to > keep the names we've kept. (Whoa! ) > > So, perhaps the challenge is getting people to use the same name that we > keep because if we keep Aashish Marga somewhere around in Baneshwor (just > an example) but if it's around in just OSM, that won't be useful to anyone > at all. Names in OSM must be in-sync with what people use/are used to with. > Just my opinion though! > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Rajeev Amatya <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> We have completed most of our comprehensive mapping in Tinkune-Koteshwor >> area. Please have a look here: >> >> http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=85.34561&lat=27.68357&zoom=17 >> >> We will probably finish up with polygons/houses next week. The house >> polygons are only experimental and we will not spend time on it for other >> regions. We will now move west to Sankhamul area. >> >> We have also tried putting few house names in the map to get an idea >> about how they are numbered. Seems like they are numbered by taking a >> distance from a fixed reference point, which I think is not a bad way to go >> in Kathmandu. While most of this region had street names, I am pretty sure >> most regions in Lalitpur and Bhaktapur do not have the names. We are adding >> most of the street names right now from the project that the govt and the >> EU did some 10 years ago. >> >> So, we wanted to start this discussion on how to tackle this issue and >> whether it is even possible to fix this problem. Is it a good idea to give >> names ourselves without approval from the govt? The government probably is >> not gonna do much in the next five years. >> >> Let us know if you have any thoughts on this. >> >> Rajeev >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MapKathmandu" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mapkathmandu?hl=en. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > *Aashish Tripathee* > *Founder Partner* > *Bwingle Web Solutions <http://bwingle.org/>* > > <https://www.facebook.com/bwinglenepal> <https://twitter.com/bwingle> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MapKathmandu" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mapkathmandu?hl=en. > > > -- Prabhas Pokharel http://twitter.com/prabhasp 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/
