Re: [Talk-in] Mapping Water ATM's

2020-11-17 Thread Arun Ganesh
Agree, vending machine makes sense if its an automated coin operated machine. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Re: [Talk-in] Need guidance in launching a HOT project in Bangalore for mapping the lakes

2020-11-12 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 5:10 AM Nagesh Aras wrote: > Hi all, > > Several activist groups in Bangalore have come together with the aim of > mapping the water system in the city, which includes the lakes, and > drainage system. The aim is to digitize thold maps to know what was the > original

Re: [Talk-in] Virtual Mappy Hours - India - Feb 2020

2020-02-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
llo all, > > Date:- Feb 26, 2020- 9-10 pm IST > Topic :- Boundaries ( administrative, political and lsg boundary) - How to > use OSM data ? > Arun Ganesh, OSM India > > Please Join. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Virtual_Mappy_

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

2020-01-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:32 PM Arun Ganesh wrote: > >> >> now we have a model where PyCon India [1] is organized on rotation from >> various users groups from around country,these users groups aka chapters >> have no formal body they exist on Mailing lists and meet

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

2020-01-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:52 PM Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook mapping highways using AI in collaboration with OpenStreetMap

2019-07-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
Well put stevea! Lets not forget what originally brought many of us here together (at least from my interactions with many of you in real life), a dream that humans could create the most accurate representation of the world through open collaboration.The support of FB massively increases the

[Talk-in] Tutorial for OSM tileserver with corrected borders

2019-07-19 Thread Arun Ganesh
Quite often there are folks looking to build their own tileserver with the borders of India matching official government ones. Since doing this involves a bit of poking through different guides, it was not always a very pleaseant experience for those unfamiliar with the whole rendering toolchain

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India partnership with upcoming YourStory.in conference

2019-02-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
Hi everyone, happy to share that we are officially community partners with YourStory for their technology conference Future of Work [1] in Bengaluru on Feb 9th. Tickets are priced Rs 4k and YourStory is offering 15 free passes to members of the OSM India community to attend. This is a great

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India partnership with upcoming YourStory.in conference

2019-02-02 Thread Arun Ganesh
Yourstory have just got back with the content for the mailer and social media post. I'll post on the list and fb and i'll reach out to the twitter channel maintainers to post it there. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-in] Redesigning the OSM India Logo

2019-01-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 8:23 AM Chetan H A wrote: > Hi Arun, > > The current logo very good for me. It's the same we are using in @osm_in > twitter. Thanks to Srividya for creating this. > > Chetan the logo is good, and thanks to Srividya for taking the initiative to make it. Brought it up

[Talk-in] Redesigning the OSM India Logo

2019-01-25 Thread Arun Ganesh
Theres a logo available for OSM India that can be used online and on publicity materials: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:OpenStreetMap-India.svg Since using Indian flag needs to follow the flag code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_code_of_India , it might be a good idea to have a

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India partnership with upcoming YourStory.in conference

2019-01-25 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > > > Hi Arun, > > Looks like a good idea and opportunity let us know what help you need in > this matter. > Thanks Satya, also the response on the Telegram group has been positive. I'll find out what needs to be done. ___ Talk-in mailing list

[Talk-in] OSM India partnership with upcoming YourStory.in conference

2019-01-25 Thread Arun Ganesh
Hey all, i've got an interesting request for OSM India to be a community/outreach partner for an upcoming conference from yourstory.in called Future of work on 9th Feb in Bengaluru. According to the event site https://events.yourstory.com/future-of-work-2019 it looks like a product

Re: [Talk-in] Seeking help / resource persons for bulk data imports

2018-11-18 Thread Arun Ganesh
Hi Nikhil, any dataset to be imported will need to follow the import guidelines https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines It can look like a long winded process, but has been put together from past learnings. A good first step is to share what is the data being imported so it can be

Re: [Talk-in] Mapping party and theodolite making at Science Hack Day Belgaum Nov 2-4

2018-10-31 Thread Arun Ganesh
Have created a page on the wiki if anyone wants to share a link https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Events/Science_Hack_Day_Belgaum_2018 On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 9:20 PM Arun Ganesh wrote: > For folks near Belgaum and attending Science Hack Day India 2018 > http://sciencehackday.in

[Talk-in] Mapping party and theodolite making at Science Hack Day Belgaum Nov 2-4

2018-10-28 Thread Arun Ganesh
For folks near Belgaum and attending Science Hack Day India 2018 http://sciencehackday.in, lets have an OSM mapping party as a pre event to SoTM on Nov 2. There will also be a hacking project to design and build a DIY theodolite that students can use to create maps using trigonometry for those

Re: [Talk-in] weeklyOSM #427 2018-09-18-2018-09-24

2018-09-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
A highlight specific to India is a nice article about the increased interest in OSM in India on factor daily that features various members from this list: https://factordaily.com/an-open-source-resistance-takes-shape-as-tech-giants-race-to-map-the-world/ Congratulations everyone! On Sat, Sep

Re: [Talk-in] National hospital directory data in ODGL

2018-09-29 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:10 PM Shajeer M wrote: > Did you mean https://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/NDSAP.pdf (Page 10)? > Yes, have added more details to the new section Naveen created https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Data_sources#India_OpenData:_data.gov.in Does this looks good,

Re: [Talk-in] National hospital directory data in ODGL

2018-09-28 Thread Arun Ganesh
This is great and a super useful dataset to have on OSM. As a first step we should clearly establish that Indian OGDL is compatible with OSM to avoid any conflicts over license issues. Has this already been established? We can add a section to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Data_sources

[Talk-in] [BLR] Indiranagar tree mapping party on July 1

2018-06-25 Thread Arun Ganesh
The very active resident welfare associations in Indiranagar are planning to do a tree audit very soon. Its a good time to help evolve some tools and strategies for local volunteers to use OSM as an inventory for local trees. We have had some success with mapping trees on OSM in the area and have

Re: [Talk-in] Python Conference in Chennai - PySangamam

2018-06-20 Thread Arun Ganesh
You should definitely send a mail to the OSM India list: OpenStreetMap in India On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 2:05 AM Arun Ganesh wrote: > Hi Vijay, thank you for personally reaching out. I would have loved to > participate but will be busy at that time with my wife's delivery. Have not > b

Re: [Talk-in] Question regarding open-elevation map

2018-05-31 Thread Arun Ganesh
It should definitely be SRTM, there is no other open global DEM of that quality. On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Deepthi Patric wrote: > How does the elevation map work ? Does it work by extracting contours from > SRTM ? Or does it use point-sampling tool ? > > Regards, > Deepthi J > >

Re: [Talk-in] Tagging VCBs

2018-05-22 Thread Arun Ganesh
I'm unable to exactly understand how the VCB works, also there seems to be no other resources that describe this structure apart from the Kerala RD website. >From what I can gather, the VCB seems to operate like a small barrage where shutters help raise the level of water. As a minor water

Re: [Talk-in] Navile basawesvara temple .

2018-05-15 Thread Arun Ganesh
Here you go :) https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5613713602 On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:04 AM, PC creation Presents wrote: > > ___ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >

Re: [Talk-in] Extracting rivers as multipolygons

2018-05-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:40 AM, Aruna S wrote: > Hey Arun, > > > Find all water polygon/relations that intersect with the buffered > centerlines > This is the part I was missing. What tags would I be looking for here? I > see that for

Re: [Talk-in] Extracting rivers as multipolygons

2018-05-07 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Aruna S wrote: > Ramya! > > Hi, ok. So, do you have ideas around extracting the relations I've sent as > an example (https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=16/24.4812/79.8781) - > for example, if I wanted to extract all relations that make up

Re: [Talk-in] Wikimedia maps - Internationalization

2018-04-28 Thread Arun Ganesh
There has been some discussion on the Wikimedia lists about the map tiles showing the incorrect borders. Have made a demo which shows how this can be fixed on the client side. Indian langauge maps with Indian border: https://jsfiddle.net/planemad/oeeLmg1j/1/

[Talk-in] Mapping Himalayan Glaciers

2018-04-18 Thread Arun Ganesh
For earth day, we have a special mapping task created to map Himalayan Glaciers in India. All the details and instructions are available here: https://osm.earth/project/23 Thanks to Jinal for taking the lead to put this together! Feel free to spread the word and join in.

[Talk-in] Mapping India's national geological monuments

2018-02-13 Thread Arun Ganesh
Recently came across the GSI's list of national monuments and geological marvels http://www.famindia.com/india/site_geological.htm which were fascinating to go through. Little did I know about these wonderful sites which have a lot of educational and tourism significance. How many of these sites

Re: [Talk-in] Map of State of Maharashtra vs Map of Districts of Maharashtra from overpass turbo

2018-02-02 Thread Arun Ganesh
> My query is that I am ONLY seeing the state level boundaries. Why is the > union not giving me the union of the state and district boundaries ? > >> >> It would help to know exactly the result you expect? Also maybe abetter place to get help on overpass queries is the #osm irc channel > >>

Re: [Talk-in] Map of State of Maharashtra vs Map of Districts of Maharashtra from overpass turbo

2018-02-01 Thread Arun Ganesh
Have added Mumbai City, Mumbai Suburban, Thane and Raigad districts. Source: Used the datameet districts shapes to import into JOSM. From there cut out the missing boundaries that needed to be added and manually added the new relations. On

Re: [Talk-in] OSM Shapefile of Indian version of the borders according to the existing law

2018-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > wrote: > >> Dear Arun, >> >> Thank you and Best Regards, >> Ashim >> >> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:01 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Ashim, I just tried this out, there was a small bit of cleanup

Re: [Talk-in] OSM Shapefile of Indian version of the borders according to the existing law

2018-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
Ashim, I just tried this out, there was a small bit of cleanup needed to remove some gaps. Detailed outline of India generated from OSM is available here: https://github.com/datameet/maps/tree/master/Country ___ Talk-in mailing list

Re: [Talk-in] OSM Shapefile of Indian version of the borders according to the existing law

2018-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
Ashim: - Export the India geojson from Walter's site for the land area https://wambachers-osm.website/boundaries/ - Export the geojson of disputed areas claimed by India from overpass http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/voe - Open both in qgis and choose processing->toolbox->union to

Re: [Talk-in] OSM Shapefile of Indian version of the borders according to the existing law

2018-01-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
Like Sajjad said theres no straightforward way if you want ready to use polygons. You will need to get a set of shapes from OSM and manually merge/cut them to get the needed output. - India boundaries and claimed areas http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/voe - World coastline

Re: [Talk-in] OpenStreet india map for commercial use.

2017-12-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Akshay Agrawal < aksh...@india.tejasnetworks.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I was using a tile scheme as shown in https://github.com/osm-in/ > openstreetmap.in for developing my web Application. But this only allows > me to use for personal development. How can I use the

Re: [Talk-in] How to get a bot account to upload translated strings for OSM?

2017-10-17 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > As we can not get the user's OSM credentials as text in telegramBot, > we need a bot account to update OSM with the tamil names to all the > relevant english names that volunteers have translated. > > Is this process is fine? > > This is such an awesome project and love how easy it is to

Re: [Talk-in] old_name tag for merged Associate State Banks

2017-10-15 Thread Arun Ganesh
Overpass has a useful function to query historic data using the data parameter. It also supports a CSV output. Putting them together, this query will give a CSV of the OSM id and names of banks and atms: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/sms . This should hopefully match the spreadsheet and be useful

[Talk-in] OSM 13th Birthday Celebrations

2017-08-09 Thread Arun Ganesh
The 13th anniversary of the OpenStreetMap project is this Sunday - 13th August! At Bengaluru tomorrow, Thursday 7pm, Mapbox will be hosting a special GeoBLR meetup with Jennings Anderson who is doing his research on the communities that map on OSM. We'll also have time to interact and meet others

Re: [Talk-in] Geocoding Vikarabad District, Telangana

2017-08-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
If you want a OSM based geocoder, give https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/demo a try. It looks like Vikarabad does not have many villages mapped, so it probably won't give good results till you improve OSM. If using Google is giving bad results, its unlikely one can do much to improve the results.

[Talk-in] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Notes on Mediawiki Hackathon 2017, Vienna, Austria

2017-05-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
Sharing a great roundup of the recent Mediawiki Hackathon in Vienna from Tamil Wikimedian and OSM contributor Shrinivasan. There is so much overlap between the Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap projects, we should have more meetups to share ideas that grow open knowledge and data in India. --

Re: [Talk-in] how to store the gov agency which currently manages this infra

2017-05-05 Thread Arun Ganesh
Different agencies are responsible for different functions of an asset, but usually should just be one organisation responsible for the operation and maintenance of an asset. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-in] Use MapRoulette to improve OSM - India data

2017-04-24 Thread Arun Ganesh
You mean individual train routes? Thats sounds incredibly hard to map and maintain. ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Re: [Talk-in] Use MapRoulette to improve OSM - India data

2017-04-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
The railway data on datameet can be used to create a background layer in JOSM/iD as a reference. Here is one map http://ruchikavn.github.io/indianrailwaymap/#10.68/17.0646/76.9679 On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 3:14 AM, muzirian wrote: > Was fixing railway stations over? found some

Re: [Talk-in] Identifying usage of railway tracks

2017-04-07 Thread Arun Ganesh
This would be really interesting for the railfans! JOSM would be best suited to add tags to multiple segments at once. Rought workflow: - Download the railway segments in JOSM - Select any way and hit shift+w to select the continuous track - Add the correct `usage` or `service` tag based

Re: [Talk-in] license compatibility of various data sources for india

2017-04-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
Not sure if the new open Government data license covers all previous work: https://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Gazette_Notification_OGDL.pdf On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:21 PM, muzirian wrote: > Is all data from census in public domain? > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:17 PM,

Re: [Talk-in] Indian Districts

2017-04-05 Thread Arun Ganesh
>From what I remember, when Harshad imported the districts many years back there was a problem with multipart districts. This caused quite a few missing coastal districts. Nothing was deleted. On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:14 AM, muzirian wrote: > Also wasn't districts boundaries

[Talk-in] Exploring recent edits in India

2017-03-24 Thread Arun Ganesh
Its been fun to see the recent changes on the map in Deccan India using osmcha [1]. Ended up adding some detail in Aluva to help out muzirian :) [1]

Re: [Talk-in] Use MapRoulette to improve OSM - India data

2017-03-15 Thread Arun Ganesh
Challenge 3 and 4 could be quite interesting to get other communities interested in OSM. For Wikidata matching, we can share the challenge with the Wikimedia India chapter. Adding these tags also help make maps on Wikipedia. See Naveens' diary

Re: [Talk-in] Adding wikidata tag for Indian districts

2017-02-15 Thread Arun Ganesh
Naveen this is amazing. Is there some documentation on Wikipedia on how one tags a feature on OSM and then add the map on the wiki? Are features immediately updated from OSM or does it take some time? On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Naveen Francis wrote: > One more example

Re: [Talk-in] GSoC Idea -- Openstreetmap Indic Localization helper tool

2017-02-13 Thread Arun Ganesh
Great idea Srikanth, this is definitely much needed. Maybe you can share the idea on the talk list as well for feedback. On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to suggest an idea to build a tool which could help in improving > the ease

Re: [Talk-in] Map of InternetShutdowns in India - Need Help!

2017-02-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
Sarath, it looks like mapbox-gl-boundaries plugin is correcting the boundaries as expected. Can you describe exactly on which part of the boundary you are seeing an issue? On the first load it takes a second for the extended boundaries to show up, but should be fine after that. On Thu, Feb 9,

[Talk-in] [BLR] Volunteers needed for mapping camp for residents of Indiranagar

2017-01-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
The citizen of the Indiranagar RWA have requested help to teach them how to map their locality to document the trees, footpaths, landuse and other amenities to help them take action against illegal felling of trees and unauthorized commercialization of the neighborhood. Are there any mappers from

Re: [Talk-in] OSM server with latest code

2017-01-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
gt; Email: p...@vamosys.com > twitter: @gps_vamosystems > Skype: pkram76 > > > On 11 January 2017 at 01:22, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there a Mapnik style file you can share? We should be able to migrate >> the instructions from http://

[Talk-in] Mapping party using street photos at Mapbox today #osmgeoweek

2016-11-16 Thread Arun Ganesh
Today evening at Mapbox, we're hosting a mapping party to improve the OpenStreetMap data using the street photographs crowdsourced using Mapillary . We will mostly concentrate on Bengaluru and

Re: [Talk-in] Automating OSM translation into Indic languages

2016-10-31 Thread Arun Ganesh
This is amazing Srikanth! Can you also share statistics of how many did not match, maybe it could be used to flag potentially incorrect translations on Wikidata. On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 8:42 AM, manoj k wrote: > Great. How can i test for malayalam ? > >

Re: [Talk-in] Large number of damaging edits in India

2016-10-13 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:17 PM, I Chengappa wrote: > Some of these editors have been active again. While most of their edits > seem to be useful, some of the data is wrong, and some edits have been > destructive. They do not respond to changeset comments. The areas of >

Re: [Talk-in] Export Particular area

2016-10-12 Thread Arun Ganesh
Akshay, without seeing some code or documentation of what you are trying to do, it will be very difficult for someone to help you. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > What exactly are you trying to do? Is this a Desktop/Mobile App? or a Web > App? > >

Re: [Talk-in] Large number of damaging edits in India

2016-10-05 Thread Arun Ganesh
, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: > There has been a sudden burst of editing activity in Bangalore, Mumbai and > Jabalpur and many important roads have gone missing and replaced with > fictional data. It looks like some kind of cla

Re: [Talk-in] Publisher of maps in Indian Language

2016-09-17 Thread Arun Ganesh
There used to be a test server which would render any language tag on the fly, but it seems to be down http://mlm.jochentopf.com I did some experiments with doing attempting something similiar: http://openstreetmap.in/demo/ and documented here:

[Talk-in] [BLR] Software Freedom Day meet at CIS Bengaluru today

2016-09-17 Thread Arun Ganesh
On the occasion of software freedom day today to promote free culture in computing, a few of us including folks from the local Wikimedia community are meeting the offices at CIS at Domlur at 3pm. Do join in if you are around. Details: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2016/India/Bangalore/CIS

Re: [Talk-in] India - Bangladesh enclaves/exclaves on OSM

2016-08-31 Thread Arun Ganesh
Wow, thats the first time I'm seeing a boundary agreement document and its fascinating to read. And pretty impressive from the MEA, thanks for sharing. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > Here is a more readable document from the MEA:

Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

2016-08-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > This link gives the criteria: > > http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_ > files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf > > For a town, the population criteria is quite small. To be called a town, > it should

Re: [Talk-in] Ward map Bhopal

2016-08-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
Would also suggest mailing the datameet group if they have pointers on how this could be released under an open license. Its definitely going to be a bit of work doing it the right way. On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice diary entry

Re: [Talk-in] Ward map Bhopal

2016-08-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
addition. > I have send a mail to BMC to get information about the licence. > > -- > *Regards.* > > *Pratik Yadav* > > > ___ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tal

[Talk-in] List of all Airport Reference points in India

2016-07-27 Thread Arun Ganesh
Found this AAI page with a list of proposed, current and disused civil aerodromes. http://www.dgca.nic.in/Arp2.html It must be really outdated, as it mentions Kochi Aiport as proposed, which was constructed in 1999. But should be good to check the location of others. -- Arun Ganesh @planemad

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

2016-07-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > So, in some cases name:en doesn't seem to exist (or maybe I'm wrong?) > > Certainly possible, there have been cases where a new contributor has replaced the English name in the `name` tag with the localized name, and others where the mapper seemed to have contributed directly in the local

Re: [Talk-in] National Highway relations are unacceptably huuuuge!

2016-07-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
dered ways, with the main route on top and links > (slip roads) at the bottom. > > I envisage that one relation for each state should be sufficient for the > time being. > > — Amaroussi. > ___ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstr

Re: [Talk-in] National Highway relations are unacceptably huuuuge!

2016-07-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
very way. Another benefit of such a > system is that international users can exclude the disputed sections where > it is legal to show India in its widely-recognised outline. > > — Amaroussi. > ___ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@op

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

2016-07-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
and cross indic language transliterations: - https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/tree/master/rules - http://libindic.org On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Its surprising we all agree that using the latin script as default for > local name

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

2016-07-14 Thread Arun Ganesh
me:lang=* " tag. > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/search?q=name%3A > > Best, > Chethan > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Not having map tiles available for the various languages is definitel

Re: [Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

2016-07-12 Thread Arun Ganesh
k the existing convention works really well. Use name tag for >>> latin script and specific language tag for that language names. I think >>> this makes it easy to work and also divide work. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jul

[Talk-in] State of the Map Asia 2016 Call for Presentations

2016-07-07 Thread Arun Ganesh
conference web page for instructions: http://stateofthemap.asia/program Note that the deadline for submission is on July 31. We are all excited to see what you have in store for us! Eugene Villar On behalf of the SotM Asia 2016 Team -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGan

[Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

2016-07-04 Thread Arun Ganesh
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India#Naming_in_different_scripts_and_languages -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

[Talk-in] Rann of Kutch wetlands

2016-06-04 Thread Arun Ganesh
Some interesting discussion on mapping the mudflats of the Rann in the diary: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Alan/diary/38776 -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-in] [BLR] Indiranagar tree planting and mapping on world environment day

2016-06-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
, and as part of the efforts we are also going to document the locations of the trees on OpenStreetMap. Those interested will be meeting at the cornerstone park opposite KFC from 9AM. Ask the organizers for me or the mapping team. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/478058269058618/ -- Arun Ganesh

Re: [Talk-us] Restoring bus routes in Portland

2016-05-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
on using complex workflows while restoring relations. Will notify on list when the diary post is up. [1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/185#issuecomment-220950169 -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> ___ Talk-us maili

[Talk-us] Restoring bus routes in Portland

2016-05-20 Thread Arun Ganesh
to be a mechanism to just restore relation membership to a historical version. Any help and ideas appreciated [1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/185 -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-in] Mapping for HOT response for Sri Lanka floods

2016-05-19 Thread Arun Ganesh
for this time of the year. Its also probably time to think about how we can be prepared on the map front to help relief agencies in India when help is required. The Chennai floods in November is a reminder how vulnerable our cities are against nature. -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGan

Re: [Talk-transit] Tag railway=station on ways and Wiki

2016-05-19 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > Talk-transit mailing list > > Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > > > _

Re: [Talk-in] Railway station GPS co-ordinates

2016-05-17 Thread Arun Ganesh
> *Sent:* Monday, May 16, 2016 12:10 PM >> *To:* OpenStreetMap in India >> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-in] Railway station GPS co-ordinates >> >> >> >> Hi, >> Is the list of Railway Stations/ Junctions in India available as a CSV/ >> Excel file? Maybe w

Re: [Talk-in] Railway station GPS co-ordinates

2016-05-12 Thread Arun Ganesh
India > Office:0091-80-4918-1692 | Mobile:0091-99800-64282 > > > > ___ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanes

[Talk-us] Improving the classification of roads in SF

2016-05-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
be used as reference to make improvements? -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-in] Multlingual map on openstreetmap.in

2016-04-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
not have support for complex text shaping. This is being tracked here: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl/issues/4 Feel free to get into the OSM India repository and contribute to code improvements. We can make some really useful demos to showcase with institutions. -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <h

Re: [Talk-in] Seeking advice for tree mapping using OSM

2016-04-07 Thread Arun Ganesh
A few of us have experimented with doing tree mapping in Bangalore with good results http://openstreetmap.in/events/2016/02/13/bengaluru-tree-survey.html You can check the data here: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/eoA Broadly there are two steps to the process: 1) Map the tree locations accurately.

Re: [Talk-in] Seeking advice for tree mapping using OSM

2016-04-07 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote: > I agree - "OSM is not the best place to use as a datastore". > OSM is nothing but a massive version controlled map datastore, so I would think its probably the best place for this data. What you would need is

Re: [Talk-in] National Waterways in India

2016-04-04 Thread Arun Ganesh
is should not be much of an issue , the tag itself would be on a new relation and not directly on the way. > > Regards, > Devdatta > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> If its a national reference, just `ref=NW4` should do. N

Re: [Talk-in] Boundary tagging scheme for India

2016-03-22 Thread Arun Ganesh
, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Merging recent discussions from district[1] and constituency [2] > boundaries. > > The current tagging scheme for boundaries in India[3] has limitations > since it was not effectively researched to properly separate revenue and &g

[Talk-in] Boundary tagging scheme for India

2016-03-22 Thread Arun Ganesh
[4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Boundaries [5] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=WikiProject_India/Boundaries=next=1280759 -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> ___ Talk-in mailing lis

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-12 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > this means that all turn:lanes, change:lanes, access:lanes, > forward:lanes, backward:lanes, etc. should count ALL lanes Turn lanes meant for a turn in a particular direction at the junction. I'm not sure if the concept of a turn lane extends to a cycle? The turn lane data should provide

Re: [Talk-in] Indian districts tagging

2016-03-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_in_India > [4] > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Boundaries#Administrative_divisions > > > cheers, > yogi > > ___ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstr

[Talk-us] San Jose GIS data license

2016-02-15 Thread Arun Ganesh
://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/16118 Does this mean its ok to use for OSM or is a more explicit license needed? Could not find any prior discussion of the dataset on list. Cheers, -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/A

Re: [Talk-in] weeklyOSM 290

2016-02-11 Thread Arun Ganesh
map.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM Cheers, > > Jinal Foflia > > _______ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.or

Re: [Talk-in] Hello

2016-02-09 Thread Arun Ganesh
This is such a great idea, really looking forward to this. A great place to share ideas around this with the wider osm community is by writing on the diary: https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary and am sure mappers from around the world can help out. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <h

Re: [Talk-in] Hello

2016-02-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Arun Maharajan wrote: > Hey Arun, > > Thanks for the info. This could be useful actually. > Once i create my POI map, I can use Overpass to query them out and share > the query results with the world. > Am I correct? > Absolutely! > >

Re: [Talk-in] Hello

2016-02-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
I wish to share it with my friends, is that possible? > > Thank you. > Arun > > On 08-Feb-2016, at 14:45, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Welcome Arun! An interesting place to find collaborators is to look at who > has been contributing around you, chec

[Talk-us] Re-tagging quadrant routes in Pennsylvania

2016-01-19 Thread Arun Ganesh
ime next week. Do add your comments on the diary if something is missing from the proposed workflow. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstre

[Talk-in] Is Connaught Place a roundabout?

2016-01-15 Thread Arun Ganesh
/#13.19/28.6313/77.2173 -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Re: [Talk-in] Gujarat revenue maps

2016-01-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
> He mentioned that anything available on the website of Gujarat government can be used freely and any way one wants. They can't possibly license their data verbally like this. Do you know if this a state policy and if it is there is a document somewhere that we can reference to backup this

Re: [Talk-in] Gujarat revenue maps

2016-01-08 Thread Arun Ganesh
>> get back to you in a week's time. >> >> Shravan >> >> On 6 January 2016 at 18:30, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> For each taluk is available here: >>> <https://revenuedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/village-map> >

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