Hi, This is my first email to this list so here's a short introduction
I am a free-software and open-education volunteer mainly working on the XSCE[1][2] (short for School Server Community Edition) project. I've volunteered for the OLPC project[3] from 2010-2014 and worked in the field in Paraguay and Uruguay, and helped develop the Australian version of OLPC's OS. At XSCE, we are a active global volunteer community working to foster grassroots learning and education in the remotest corners of the world. Right now our model of implementation is to have offline content-loaded servers hosted in schools and villages providing access to media and collaboration tools. If there is internet connectivity, the server becomes a gateway. We have pilots in Haiti, India, Ghana, Nepal and a few other places. ----- Coming to the subject, as part of the XSCE content distribution, we include OSM tiles for offline usage. Lately, I was experimenting with generating tiles specific to India, there were a few issues: - Kashmir, and other disputed borders. - Maps localized in Hindi, or other Indian languages. So, with the help of the OSM community (including Arun, who pointed me to this list), I was able to work around those issues. The notes are documented here. http://xsce.org/wiki/generating_map_tiles A temporary rendering server is here http://home.braddock.com:28112/osm/slippymap.html If anyone's interested I can post the links to download the rendered tiles when the rendering is complete upto zoom level 17. Currently at zoom level 16. There are still some issues I will work towards. The hindi fonts in general seem a bit smaller than their english counterparts, and the idea to use transliteration to convert tags for there is no hindi translation. Anyway, thought I'd share with the list, and also leave a pointer to the XSCE project. We hope to begin many new deployments in India, Bhutan, Nepal, Nicaragua & Haiti over the next 6 months working with various volunteer groups. [1] http://xsce.org (wip frontpage) [2] http://schoolserver.org (ugly wiki) :-) [3] http://laptop.org Cheers, Anish _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
