On Fri, June 20, 2008 5:07 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 20-Jun-08, at 3:31 PM, Sanjay B wrote:
- Status of Open/Free MAP in Mumbai/IIndia and road ahead? By --
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I know Shekhar Krishnan and Schuyler Erle are coming back to Bombay over the next couple of months to do some more work on the Freemap / OSM project. I can email Shekhar and ask him to summarize what work they are planning to do, and perhaps what kind of contributions they are looking for / what is the kind of work people can do. If I hear back from him, I'm happy to do the presentation sort of as proxy, alongwith someone who attended the last workshop .. ?
instead of waiting for those guys, why dont you guys do some mapping? The Mumbai scene is pathetic.
Err.. really sorry if I missed something since I couldn't make it for the last OSM workshop in Bombay - but as I gathered, shekhar and schuyler were doing some work on it and since they're going to be down, i thought it might be useful to get their inputs on what their plans were, vis a vis not just mapping, but software development, etc. as well, especially as no one had come forth to do the presentation yet. With regards to "why dont you guys do some mapping?" - i think the point is also to address the tools, etc. with which we can do that mapping and see what holes are there to be filled, what tools can normal people use?, apart from just taking out gps devices and uploading tracks .. Just doing the directions to CAMP page today, I had to resort to using an iframe because I couldn't figure out the OSM / OpenLayers Javascript API and the different projections it seemed to use in the limited time I had to put the page up.. w/ regards to the mumbai scene - : P - only time will tell, no?
Err.. anyways - apologies for speaking up there - I honestly have been quite clueless about the OSM/Freemap project for the past year or so - really hope someone can give a good update on it at the meet tho .. would love to be able to / know how to "go do some mapping" ...
take care, Sanjay B
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Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon@au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/