[Hamara-devel] Re: The open-source maps that made rescue possible - Wired

[shirish]

addition at bottom :-

On 05/16/2015 12:22 AM, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> Read
> http://www.wired.com/2015/05/the-open-source-maps-that-made-rescues-in-nepal-possible/
> . There was a news item few days back where Pune Corporation is going to
> pay Google Rs. 10 lakh or 1 million rupees for a map. If the same amount
> was given to a bunch of volunteers, it would have resulted in superior
> map coverage without mistakes that google does.

Forgot to add that while the news-piece only throws out light on the 
rescue efforts, it is also used extensively for town-planning and 
education. Germany and Italy are two nations which use it quite 
extensively. Some resources for the same :-

http://teachosm.org/

It has various case-studies that could be used and refined for our use.

If you have an Android phone, you will find OSM in google playstore.

see http://stateofthemap.us/2014/session/teaching-mapping-to-geographers/

http://stateofthemap.us/2014/session/osm-in-the-classroom/

Unfortunately, both the videos are behind a paywall (Vimeo pro)

There are other uses such as 
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-we-could-build-utopia-based-on-real-time-location-data

http://www.slideserve.com/johnna/openstreetmap-in-education

It is available in debian :-

[$] aptitude search openstreetmap
 

i   openstreetmap-client                                            - 
OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop
i   openstreetmap-map-icons-classic                                 - 
Collection of map icons (classic set)
p   openstreetmap-map-icons-scalable                                - 
Collection of map icons (scalable set)
i   openstreetmap-map-icons-square                                  - 
Collection of map icons (square set)

[$] apt-cache policy openstreetmap-client
 

openstreetmap-client:
   Installed: 14.03.1~ds0-2
   Candidate: 14.03.1~ds0-2
   Version table:
  *** 14.03.1~ds0-2 0
           1 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ testing/main amd64 
Packages
           1 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ unstable/main amd64 
Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      14.03.1~ds0-1 0
         500 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

It is pretty well-maintained by the debian team and are pretty 
responsive if you bring an issue to their notice. Upstream issues are 
usually forwarded upstream or the reporter is told to report it upstream 
and link it to the bug in debian BTS.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org