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

[shirish]

addition at bottom:-

On 05/16/2015 12:52 AM, shirish wrote:
> 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.

See :-

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ElliottPlack/diary/26065

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