There is mapping party being organised during the inpycon event. You can meet other mappers out there. If you wish to attend kindly include your name in the wiki @ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Inpycon_2010_Bangalore
all the best for your mapping efforts. By arunmozhi On 7/14/10, anil kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello , > This feels like an adventure :) . I will try my best to add value > to the OSM. > > thank you, > Anil > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Ramey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:00 , anil kumar wrote: >> >> > I am located in Bangalore, karnataka,India . Live close by to MSRIT >> > where >> pycon2010 india is being organised. >> > >> >> It doesn't appear [1] that there's a whole lot of armchair cartography >> left >> in that area, other than landuse (residential, commercial, retail, etc.). >> So, that leaves surveying. Take a look at Walking Papers [2], you could >> print out a map and take it out with you, and make notes on what you see >> so >> that you can add them to the map. You don't have to scan the map you >> print >> with Walking Papers back in, you can just use it as scratch paper to >> locate >> where you need to add things on the map. To edit the map, you need to >> create an account (it's free!) and the easiest editor is Potlatch [3], >> it's >> the page you go to when you hit the edit tab on openstreetmap. >> >> When comparing with google maps [4], I see that in general OSM has a >> little >> more detail, but google has neighborhood names that OSM doesn't. >> If you could get those, without copying from other maps (or google), >> either >> from your own knowledge, or asking residents, that would be helpful too. >> >> The nice thing about OSM is that you can scratch your own itch, that is, >> you can map what's important to you. If you drive, you could make sure >> the >> street network is complete, has traffic lights, and speed limits. If you >> bike, you could make sure that bike routes and paths are on the map. As >> you >> go out to eat, you could make sure the restaurant you went to is on the >> map. >> >> Good luck, and enjoy the exploration. >> >> Ramey >> >> [1] >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=13.03646&lon=77.56117&zoom=16&layers=B000TTF >> [2] http://walking-papers.org/ >> [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch >> [4] >> http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=77.56117&lat=13.03646&zoom=15 >> _______________________________________________ >> newbies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >> > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
