Thanks for sharing, http://www.treemapindia.in is not working.
Regards, On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM, jitendra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: jitendra <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 1:34 PM > Subject: Treemapindia : mobile and web software as community asset, all > FOSS > To: > > > *Urban Tree Preservation is Challenged Today.* > Only people with compassion for the nature and in turn for humans have > undertaken the challenge. > > FOSS lovers who also love environment should help bring together all the > passion and inform the treemapindia technology perspective as it is > evolving. > > As they say,"If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It" ( > http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2012/10/21/the-truth-about-if-you-cant-measure-it-you-cant-manage-it/) > > So we, as a committee , with some forest experts and municipal > corporation, felt that mandate of tree census lying in the archives of > indian laws since 1975 , with some paper based, non-retrievable data could > be an opportunity to bring newer technologies to play the role of good > samaritan. > > Prompted by the Hon Hiigh court, ( under PIL 93/2009 in Bombay High > Court) using GIS, GPS, Mobile etc, we have tried to architect a system > that should act as a platform to enable tree preservation. > > While partaking the benefits (?) of urbanised development, with an > occasional oblique remark on environmental deterioration, as if somebody > else only is responsible for it, many like me have done our bit in > attacking the ecology . We believe we need to do our bit to preserve the > same too. > > Trees are the important components of our urban ecology . Wonder if their > slow and silent growth is the reason why attention is less than water or > air which they purify. That they are the hiosts of all kind of biodiversity > also goes unregistered. The biodiversity people are found more concerned > with keeping secret the biodiversity info and hence less interested in > devising way of involving the community. > Even the Forest department talks of non-Forest trees but has no > terminology and hence focus on urban trees > > Be that as it may > We have initiated a community owned asset in technology: Free and open > source software for server and mobile. > > Now we have a website based on www.opentreemap.org a US based free > software used also in www.sandiegotreemap.org (US) and www.treezilla.org(UK) > *www.treemapindia.in* <http://www.treemapindia.in> and a vision to cover > the whole country. ) see www.treezilla.org a monstrous mapping initiave > to map 3 billion trees of UK. we are using the same technology) Guided by > GISE Lab at IIT ( www.gise.cse.iitb.ac.in ) > > Also we have a software ( still work in progress, you can contribute !! ) > that will integrate with the above site: (It is as of now , regrettably , > restricted to andoid and 7" at that) This is an opensource software and > enthusiasts are invited to clone and modify as they wish . it is currently > available on google app store > as > *treemapindia > * > and discussion is on > > www.github.com/pune-lug/treecensus > > on facebook > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jan-Vruksha-Tantra/112532068949550 > > > > > > > > -- > jitendra > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > -- G.T.RAO A free software fund-a-mentaL-isT. http://fossyatra.wordpress.com http://paper.li/GTRao/1342070958 mobile:9953506651 लिनक्स: नि:शुल्क और खुले स्रोत सॉफ्टवेयर आप के लिए और दुनिया के लिए अच्छा है. ना कोई adware,ना कोई spyware, सिर्फ अच्छा सॉफ्टवेयर. Linux(લિનક્ષ ): મુક્ત અને નિઃશુલ્ક(મફત) ઓપન સોર્સ સોફ્ટવેર તમારા માટે અને વિશ્વ માટે સારું છે. ના કોઈ એડવેર , ના કોઈ સ્પાયવેર, માત્ર સારું સોફ્ટવેર.
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