On 12 December 2010 10:08, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Students might be interested in this.
<quote>A small team of scientists, research scholars and technical engineers, led by Professor Nagarjuna G of Gnowledge Lab, is carefully collecting trails, positions and tracks and putting these villages on the Internet. A result of the free and open source movement, their idea is to map these villages that do not exist on sites like Google maps and WikiMapia.
The project, which began a month ago, has so far mapped the villages of Khairat, Varose, Bidkhurd and Morbe Dam, besides Borgaon.
Once every week, the Gnowledge lab team starts off early in the morning and visits the village school. From here, the team swells to include teachers and some students and they leave to carry out mapping and tracking activity. The others stay back with laptops that the team brings for the children. The team then treks through the village, armed with GPS systems that are synced with laptops, on to which the paths and trails are collected and saved. Then, a file containing the entire path is created and saved before it’s uploaded on to www.openstreetmap.org. The GPS systems were designed by J T D’Souza and Punit D’Souza, volunteers with the project. </quote>
Kudos to Nagarjuna and the other Gnowledge team :)
Regards, Pavithran