On Saturday 05 Dec 2009 12:04:13 am Sajjad Anwar wrote: > Another Mapping Party is planned at Trivandrum during 12-13 December 2009. > SciPy.in is happening at Technopark, Trivandrum. This would be a good time > to stage OpenStreetMap. Those who visit SciPy can join us anytime. More > details regarding the event is at http://tr.im/GDXQ >
some of our engineers will be attending scipy, and they will be bringing GPS instruments also. Trivandrum has excellent satellite coverage, so mapping can be done even by people without GPS. I noticed that quite a lot has been done already. However, I hope that you people are not going to confine your work just to the party - one can map without a party also. And your NIT work is still not up to speed. I still cannot see buildings, lawns, trees and some roads too - I note I can now get to the ladies hostel, but how does one get to the mini canteen? Mapping is a process, it is done on a daily basis - parties and things are good (and fun). But in Trivandrum - and calicut town also, given the fact that there is good satellite imagery, one can sit at home and do a huge amount of mapping without GPS and without party. Take Mysore, most of the roads have been traced from satellite by a person from Germany - of course it is not fully accurate, but those of us with ground knowledge have been working at correcting this. I met some people in Trivandrum - they said 'we would love to map, but we do not have GPS'. Please make the message in Trivandrum loud and clear - most of Trivandrum can be mapped *without* GPS as long as one has local knowledge of the area. Please add this in your wiki page also. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
