[Talk-in] Fwd: Maps-l Digest, Vol 101, Issue 1

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Hello,

Apologies for cross-posting. This may be mostly for your information,etc.

Sincerely,
Pradeep

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Dear Open Street Map community,



I apologize if you are seeing this email for a second time. I sent it
originally to the talk-ca list, and I was advised that this list might
be more appropriate.



My name is Peter Rushforth, and I’m with the Canada Centre for Mapping
and Earth Observation, at Natural Resources Canada (a Canadian
government department).  We are planning a World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) workshop on maps in the Web platform (specifically HTML),
together with the W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).  The
workshop will be collocated with the OGC Technical Committee meeting,
June 15-17 2020 in Montreal, Quebec.



I am sending this email to see if Open Street Map (especially the Web
client development teams) might be interested in being invited to
participate (by presenting a short position paper, in person) in this
workshop on the concept of better integrating mapping into the Web
platform standards, and if so, how does Open Street Map see this.
Even if you believe that the Web platform standards are already good
enough for mapping, it might be worthwhile staking that out as a
position. If you are interested, though, we would certainly welcome
OSM to also be part of the program committee.



The objective of the workshop will be to start the conversation
between the geospatial (and geospatial standards) and Web platform
communities, about how Web standards could better serve the needs of
Web mapping and most especially users of Web maps and the Web in
general.



Some topics of potential interest include:



a native map viewer, similar to that provided for video content
standards for how such a map widget might integrate with map services and
APIs
accessibility of browser maps
privacy of user location information
security of browser-based maps
Integration / relationship of maps and location with other browser
APIs, e.g. geo-video, geolocation API, forms, SVG
crawling, indexing and searching map information
standardized browser elements and APIs
CSS styling of maps and map features
Map feature creation / input forms
federated map services with linking - aka the Web



Mostly the agenda will be driven by position papers, and what
organizations like yours want to discuss.  If OSM is interested in
sending one or two people to present a position, please reply directly
to me, and I will ensure that you / they are invited.





Sincerely,

Peter





Peter Rushforth



Technology Advisor

Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation

Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada

peter.rushfo...@canada.ca / Tel: 613-759-7915



Conseiller technique

Centre canadien de cartographie et d’observation de la Terre

Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada

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Re: [Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Hello,

On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 15:05, satyakam goswami  wrote:

> Coming back to the original reasons for an OSM chapter to be able to
>> officially use the OSM trademark, do the python user groups not have this
>> issue?
>>
>
> One of us sends an email generally the the chair of the event from a
> particular city as organizing the event to Python Software Foundation
>

It would be great if the same can be done for OSM as well. It does not make
sense to go through the bureaucratic loops of forming an organisation just
for trademark reasons. So, there would need to be more reasons for forming
a Chapter.

It would also be worth reaching out to the Chapters Committee to find out
what compliance that OSM Foundation expects from us once we form a
Chapter?  Reports, Financial expenditures, etc. These would be in addition
to the paperwork required by Government of India.
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[Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Hello all,

In the Virtual Mappy Hours held yesterday, the OSM Chair Allan Mustard had
suggested that we go ahead with the formation of an Indian chapter and
officially affiliate with the OSM Foundation. This enables us to use the
OSM Trademark officially.

I thought I would start the thread on this list for people interested in
this effort.

I know that there is an active Telegram group going on, but I think putting
things on the mailing list will help archive the effort and discussion that
goes into formation of a Chapter. For future historians of the
movement,this would be something akin to the Constituent Assembly
discussions are to India today.

On the chat yesterday, I had cautioned that India has had previous bitter
experiences with running organisations wherein a Foundation manages the
organisations or groups in various countries. We are seeing the effect of
that in the Wikimedia movement in India. Naveen, also on this group, has
first-hand experience with this as he was involved in the formation of the
Wikimedia India Chapter.

I hope that such previous experiences of the members here will help us
avoid the pitfalls and help to form a much more stronger OSM India Chapter.
In India, the experience has been that the introduction of an organisation
leads to dis-organisation of the community. I hope we can stay in this
together and for the long haul.

Sincerely,
Pradeep

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Re: [Talk-in] savethemap.in planning meeting tomorrow May 11, 4pm - 6pm Bangalore

[Pradeep Mohandas]

The DST has its own draft policy out -
http://www.dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/Draft-NGP-Ver%201%20ammended_05May2016.pdf
On 10-May-2016 5:15 PM, "Sajjad Anwar"  wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> In the light of the proposed Geospatial Information Regulation Bill,
> few of us are gathering at the Center for Internet and Society in
> Indiranagar from 4pm tomorrow (May 11) to plan our response and assess
> current situation.
>
> Do take part if you can and help us save the map.
>
> Cheers,
> Sajjad
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[Talk-in] State of the Map India

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Are we in any position to do a State of the Map in India?

Pradeep


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[Talk-in] Fwd: [Urbanstudy] Fwd: [Gubbi Labs]: Short-course on Mapping Essentials, 29th-30th June 2013.

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Fyi

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Dear All,

Gubbi Labs, as a part of its training program is conducting a series of
short-courses for students, researchers and professionals. The next version
of the short-course on 'Mapping
Essentialshttp://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/mapping-essentials-june-2013'
is going to be held on 29th-30th June 2013. This is now held at Gubbi Labs'
Eco-station at Gubbi. The last date for online application is 15th June
2013.

*'Mapping 
Essentialshttp://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/mapping-essentials-june-2013
'* is back! This is an intense 2-day program for students and professionals
alike. This program aims to equip the participants with essentials of
mapping, offering insights and hands-on exposure to working with various
free-and-open-source mapping applications. The program equip learners to
appreciate the key concepts, enabling them to quickly learn, test and apply
the techniques in their respective domains and eventually be able to
produce maps for their own needs.

Please see some of the maps composed by earlier participants at the end of
the course here: http://courses.gubbilabs.in/showcase

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descriptionhttp://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/mapping-essentials-june-2013and
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[Talk-in] Fwd: [datameet] Putting people on the map

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Great opinion piece in the Hindu on the Survey of India and modern
cartography in India.

[ The government’s decision to invoke coercive restrictions in response to
Google’s ‘Mapathon’ contest has shown its inability to respond to
technological innovations and public needs in a fast changing world.]
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/putting-people-on-the-map/article4611043.ece?homepage=true

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[Talk-in] Police investigating Google's mapathon

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

Are people on this list carefully avoiding discussing this? -
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Delhi-Police-investigating-Google-Mapathon/articleshow/19398857.cms

warm regards,
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[Talk-in] Election Boundaries for India?

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

Are election boundaries of India available as open data? Is it available
from data.gov.in?

Since the General Elections are up and coming in 2014, perhaps this might
be a good exercise to undertake in 2013 for the OSM community?

As Mikel Maron puts it[1] so eloquently, it is the most primary
geographies of democracy.

warm regards,
Pradeep
[1] - http://brainoff.com/weblog/2012/12/05/1790

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[Talk-in] Fwd: Fw: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Hi,

Hope these come or we can organise something like this in India soon.

Pradeep

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Subject: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
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Hi folks,

it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production
to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but
obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the
recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will
probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the
mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ).

To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing
volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a
face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related
development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.

WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and
bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are
there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in
Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I
know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other
options as well.

Cheers,
Erik

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

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Hi,

Could you elaborate? Would the ASI itself have geo-coords? Would it make
sense to talk to them?

Pradeep
Handled
On Aug 30, 2012 11:50 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote:



 The workflow that Onkar suggested seems sensible to me, but it boils

 down to the availability of data and how we can go about it.


 I think the starting point is an exhaustive database of these structures
 which has a usable primary key. The current WLM list has descriptions, but
 not names which 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.

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

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

There are a couple of issues:
1. The monuments are not clearly defined. In places like Agra, which are
tourist destinations, these can seem a pretty simple proposition. It may be
easy to identify the monument physically by noticing a Archaeological
Survey of India board. I am not sure if such protections or boards exist in
all states (or if they existed, if they are still there).
2. We've found more monuments on the ASI website that includes some of the
more recent monuments (less than 100 years old) which are somewhere in the
care of ASI as well.
3. The principal problem is how do you geo-tag these given that there are
not Wikipedia articles. This is a challenge for Wikipedians as well, as we
need to get down to the task of creating articles for them :). There are
about 3000 listed monuments. No easy task. My rough sense is that less than
10% have Wikipedia articles on them.


warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas



On 29 August 2012 12:19, Sajjad Anwar sajja...@gmail.com wrote:

  Only, all monuments do not have a wikipedia page. Actually it seems like
  only a minuscule portion of them do.
 
  Also, most of the descriptions are generic:
  Two swivel guns belonging to the Mughal Nawwara
  Burial Cave
  Ruins
 
  Its quite a task to actually locate them and map it with this
 information.
  This is a massive coordinated mapping project itself. If done, it would
 be
  an awesome database which even the government may not have.

 It is. In fact, Arky and I started http://www.heritagewalks.in/ as
 part of the Maps for Making Change workshop and tried to come up with
 a platform for people to quickly check in locations of heritage
 importance. The project didn't take-off as expected and is in a bad
 shape.

 Any crowdsourced project of this sort will eventually face this
 chicken and egg problem, and that's one of my learnings from the
 heritagwalks.in project.

 The workflow that Onkar suggested seems sensible to me, but it boils
 down to the availability of data and how we can go about it.

 Cheers,
 Sajjad.
 
 
  2. Tag all the monuments that are already mapped with this tag
  (provided wikipedia page is already present).
  3. Use XAPI to retrieve all the nodes which have this tag within the
  bbox of India. [2]
  4. From this OSM dump you can easily get coordinates using some XML
  parsing.
 
  Example XAPI query (bbox is small, retrieves one node)
 
 
 http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/node[bbox=72.607,17.639,74.983,19.542][wikipedia=*]
 
  [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikipedia
  [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI#Nodes
 
 
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[Talk-in] Monuments of India - geographical co-ordinates?

[Pradeep Mohandas]

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 list of monuments
defined so by the Archaeological Survey of India here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Wiki_Loves_Monuments


Each of the state pages has a table that requires geographic co-ordinates.
Help in getting them would be appreciated. The data would be available on
Wikipedia and could be made available on OSM as well, I think. (OSM Loves
Monuments?)

warm regards,
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[Talk-in] Details on Bhuvan and some claims made

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

The January edition of Pixel 2 People, the internal newsletter of the
National Remote Sensing Center, ISRO's center for remote sensing has some
interesting points about Bhuvan, a portal that it uses to showcase
India's remote sensing data. The edition can be found here -
http://www.nrsc.gov.in/assets/doc/ptop/P2P_JAN12.pdf

It claims:
1. Services of Bhuvan has now been enhanced with the new facilities like
NRSC Open EO Data Archive (NOEDA) which facilitates the users to download
IRS Data
and Products coarser than 24 m with Metadata as per NSDI 2.0 and the
thematic Services facilitate the users to access, query and utilise all
these datasets as OGC web
services.
2. Bhuvan services are OGC compliant such as WMS (Web Map Service), Web Map
Tile Service (WMTS), WFS (Web Feature Service) and KML towards
Interoperability.
3. Bhuvan also enables users to share and overlay maps and feature data
through interoperability that implement the OGC WMS and WFS Interface and
KML encoding standards. For instance, the Andhra Pradesh Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan is using Bhuvan services to show school information.
4. On other hand, Linux user group has brought out the Andriod app to
access Bhuvan.

FYI, etc.
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Re: [Talk-in] No aerial images

[Pradeep Mohandas]

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 area?

warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:58:55 +0530
To: talk-in@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-in] No aerial images


On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Pradeep Mohandas 
pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote:







hi,

I'm a new editor on OpenStreetMap from Bharuch, Gujarat. I do not see aerial 
maps of the area I am from. Since I do not currently have a GPS reciever, 
needed some help:

Can somebody check if there are aerial images for Bharuch, Gujarat? Perhaps I 
am not being able to see them because of working on a Reliance NetConnect+ 
dongle. Just to make sure.


 Hi Pradeep, nope i dont see any imagery for bharuch either. The coverage seems 
to only start around 5 km east of the town.



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[Talk-in] No aerial images

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

I'm a new editor on OpenStreetMap from Bharuch, Gujarat. I do not see aerial 
maps of the area I am from. Since I do not currently have a GPS reciever, 
needed some help:

Can somebody check if there are aerial images for Bharuch, Gujarat? Perhaps I 
am not being able to see them because of working on a Reliance NetConnect+ 
dongle. Just to make sure.

warm regards,
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