Mapping Efforts

Road improvement Coverage

As on today in Openstreetmap, 16 lakhs km of road length mapped out of 56 lakhs km of roads in India.In 2018, we crossed Japan and Canada in total kilometres of roads by country in Openstreetmap. Starting of the year OSM had 13.66 lakhs kms or road length in India. Roads are mapped manually at the rate of 2 lakhs kilometer per year. OSM India would take 20 years to completely map full road network in India (if it is done manually).

National Highway and State Highway Mapping

Every month egazette notifications are monitored by Openstreetmap community. For every new NH announced it will be mapped in OSM. We re-use national highway mapping in Wikipedia and Wikimedia maps are powered by OpenStreetMap. Community has started mapping of state highways in all states. One of main problem community is that lack of data. Out of 36 States/UT we have data only for 22 . For other states, state highway data is not even available in a list format. About 1.5 lakh people die on Indian roads every year. We need better road data to plan, monitor, and manage infrastructure more effectively. In India a death occurs every 3.5 minutes due to road accidents

Disaster Response Mapping

OSM community was part of disaster response mapping. Community worked with an organisation called Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOTOSM) to map disaster affected areas. Floods in Kerala, Cyclone Gaja in Tamil Nadu, Landslides in Coorg, Karnataka and flash floods in Nagaland, all were devastating. More than 3000 volunteers from across the world were part of 2018 India disaster response mapping. About 25,000 kms and 5,00,000 buildings were remotely mapped through disaster response mapping. Please try mapping here

Indic Language Maps status

India has many languages.Its important to have the maps in local language for any impact social or economical.OpenStreetMap is very well placed to fulfill this requirement of citizen. Indic languages mapping efforts are coordinated at here

Mapathons

Around the year, we have conducted multiple mapathons across the country. As a part of run up events for State of the Map Asia we have conducted mapathons in Goa, Pune, Hyderabad, Delhi etc. As a part Kerala floods mapathon was conducted in Vidya Academy of Science & Technology, Thrissur.

State of the Map Asia 2018

State Of The Map Asia 2018 conference held in Bengaluru, 280 mappers from 12 countries came together to discuss and deliberate on the future of OpenStreetMap mapping. It was the fourth annual State of the Map Asia and the first time it was held in India. Organised in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, OpenStreetMap India community, and the Centre for Internet and Society. Organised in collaboration with Centre for Public Policy and Centre for Software and Information Technology Management, there will be a research seminar held with the Centre for Internet and Society.

Open Data status in India

OSM India community worked with OSM Licensing working group to check the compatibility of Government opendata license. OSM Licensing working group confirmed the compatibility of GODL - India with OSM. The GODL-India license is ODbL compatible (OpenSstreetMmap) under the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) of Government of India. Datasets released by government of India under GODL can be imported to OpenSstreetMmap. Health ministry of GOI has released geocoded health facilities and hospitals in India. Though department of Space (ISRO) has release their website in GODL via data.gov.in policy mentioned website is not favouring open geospatial data. Govt should release road data, administrative boundaries, political boundaries, emergency service locations etc in GeoJson/KML format through National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy in Government Open Data License . Across the world many Ggovernments are supporters of open data. For instance, we don’t have open data of districts or political boundaries. NITI Aayog uses OopenSstreetMmap for mapping ‘Aspirational Districts Programme’. United Nations and World Bank uses OopenSstreetMmap in various programs. OSM community is pushing Sstate Ggovernments to enact policy similar to NDSAP. Community has worked with Kerala govt for the preparation of open dataopendata policy.

Companies Contributing to OSM across the World

Across the world many companies contribute to openstreetmap. Some of the companies who contribute to openstreetmap are Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Grab, Uber, Amazon Logistics, Mapbox, and many others. .

Companies Working in India and contributing to OSM

First half of the year Mapbox data team used to add data in India. Dhisigma, a startup in Kerala contributes in adding lot road-network data in India. Facebook and Microsoft helped to map buildings and roads in the flood affected areas ofin Kerala. Apple open map team also contributes to road data in India. Microsoft has helped in mapping buildings during Kerala floods. A team in RMSI is working for Facebook and. GobalLogic has a teams which that maps for Apple and Grab.

Community Website :- http://openstreetmap.in