On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Sajjad Anwar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Apr 19, 2014 10:46 PM, "Nagarjuna G" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sunday 20 Apr 2014 12:12:17 AM Shekhar Krishnan wrote: > > > > > Thanks to our long-standing work evangelising OpenStreetMap and FOSS > GIS > > > > > at HBCSE/TIFR since 2006, via TIFR we have hostel, campus, lab > > > > > facilities if we are serious about SOTM Indi. > http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in > > > > > > > > > > Ishan, in Mumbai we can support visiting participants from all over > > > > > India and provide hostel at HBCSE depending on dates. Pradeep, what do > > > > > you suggest? I've cc-ed Mikel Maron from OpenStreetMap. > > > > > > > > > > Let's take this forward in connection with the Open Data folks in > > > > > Bangalore Datameet who are also into maps and geospatial. Thej and > Nisha > > > > > are also cc-ed herewith. > > > > > > > > > > > > > gnowledge lab has recently acquired a deidated server for openstreetmap. > Johnson, Sanjay, Sathyakam, Sajjad and Arun have already promised to > maintain the server. (included them in cc since I am not sure if I am > subscribed to the talk-in group. > > > > > > > > We need a separate map server since NCERT and TISS are currently doing > big impact projects in open educational resources for school students and > online courses for enhancing skills for undergraduate students. gnowledge > lab is involved in both these projects. In the latter project we are > already using open street map. Hundreds of students are being exposed to > osm as a part of the course. In the coming three years, we are going to > work with 50,000 undergraduate students across the country. Considering > these are Govt of India supported projects we need to take care of the > borders as per Indian Govt. Therefore the need to create custom maps. > > > > > > > > Arun is interested to do multi-lingual custom maps for school education. > NCERT is also interested in this project. > > > > > > > > The server will be made available to installations on this Monday and > hosted at osm.metaStudio.org. > > > Can we also perhaps point openstreetmap.in to the same server? +1 > How's the server coming along? > > > > > > > Let us few of us meet this week. Arun is also in in Mumbai this week. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > GN > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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