Note: Govt people in India *are* willing to release data in public domain but they dont want the additional steps like uploading a document to web . They are damn lazy and love to avoid work . I dont think they have commercial mindset or planning to make some money .

Middle men are the biggest exploiters in the country :(

@johnsmith : I was under the impression that the data would be under public domain as I first went to a Govt office from where I was redirected to a private person ( to avoid bureaucratic channels) . Till the time I reached the private person and his offer of 5000 I was not sure of license.

Even now its a private person willing to sell the govt data ! I will be approaching the Govt people through proper channels and try to convince them to release the data in public domain .

@nmixter : best way to anonymously map is via satellite view of yahoo which for my place is of zoomlevel 9 or 10 !

Going at nights is one right way to be anonymous but the time_slot is unfortunately reserved for dogs lol

@jose_ecu

Did you mean osm.wiki/Lolcat_of_awesomeness I am not yet "that" awesome :P

Yes . Its a nice application . I used it before the version with OSM was released . It really helps when you are taking trails while walking . You get a hint of the calories lost .. so you know when to drink some juice:D

cool . I am mapping a small town in the neighbouring country :)

Yes we also have very less power 18 hours . In villages it fallss to 10 hours. I always take care to 'save every 5 min'

wow thats cool ! bicycle actually also gives you accurate GPS traces

@zartbitter: I have a bad habit . I dont connect roads at places where I couldn't get the acurate data on the perception that unconnected roads will attract attention hence will be fixed .

As far as routing is considered . There are very very few GPS devices in India and most of them are happy using their proprietary maps . Actually very few use google maps for routing !

All the mobile phones which have GPS chip when they get released in developing world will have GPS chip missing with a slightly different model no . The reason being the mobile provider has to compete with other cheap phones .

Anyways I have connected the tracks and yeah tagged as 'track' as its most appropriate . Some times internal park authorities Jeep's roam around in the park .

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I think it is made by a human :)

what did you do when shops came too close ?

By the way Greengrocer butcher didnt get rendered in your map so on mine . If you are interested we could kind of create a big list of shops to be rendered on mapnik :)