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Biketrip POIs added

Posted by thevikas on 31 октябрь 2010 in English.

While returning from Ludhiana, did not take NH1. Coming via Rohtak, Jhajjar gave a new road with missing POIs. Traced many villages, streets, fuel stations and food points.
Also did a new route from Mandi, HP to Dalhausie,HP. There too added new points cause its not a common route.
Then finally some south gurgaon POIs.
All were gathered using GPSMid along with Holux m241 during August 2010.

Урын: Tikru, Bhadrotu, Dalhousie, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, 176306, India

sector 46, gurgaon, haryana, india

Posted by thevikas on 29 ноябрь 2009 in English.

Did my first heavy address mapping. Had very few streets. The got WMS plugin to get sat view. Drew as many streets as visible. Already had the information map from the sector. Job started. Have mapped 25% of the sector in about 3 hours. No clue why I "wasted" so much of my sunday evening but was enjoying every bit of it. Specially when mapnik has these days started rendering so quickly. Adjusted the spacing a few times for a few lines. Finally got the job done. Actually since the another 3 quaters still remain, will be spending another few days in completing them too.

Seems like OSM has more new things faster than you can get mapping your neighbourhood. Had mapped most of the streets around where I live and it was beconing either a power=tower or a POI flooding, and then came the JOSM with address tool. fan-tas-tic! Even better is the pic layer plugin. The only problem is sector maps are most often not to scale so overlay does not always help so much. Anyway, piclayer can atleast help in address mapping nevertheless.

Have spend this saturday evening in collecting such sector maps (6 pictures total using a 12mp cam handheld cam) from their enterances. The maps for new sectors are though drawn but are without any actuall streets. So those maps can't be used at all. While other maps are merely just streets without plot numbers so they help in mere mapping the blocks in the sector. From all the maps I have seen till date, only one was digitally map (Nirvana Country). Every map seen is always hand oil-painted. The times when these boards get made are many years before the first house comes up on these sectors. So, they loose their accuracy after about 3 years. All HUDA sectors never change the map for more than a decade and are outdated by more than 10 percent. Have not located errors on them yet. Will take time for OSM users here to use the map and then later find problems.

Урын: Sector 46, Gurgaon, Gurugram, Haryana, India

KolKata Mapping

Posted by thevikas on 12 июнь 2009 in English.

This party includes only me. Accidentally went over Calcutta OSM map today and realized that it is totally missing! Where are the mappers? Really, some cities get totally lost like nobody in that town is a G33K! Anyway, just some standard streets were visible authored mostly by non-locals. So took this as the next mission. Myself not a local from Kolkata, West Bengal, IN. But having lived in Southern Part of that city for 7 years, I think my memory can supply enough POIs. :)

Me using Potlatch for many days now. Anyway, since i don’t have any trails, thats the only way I can map that town sitting a thousand kilometres away. Just mapped my first home beside the Golf Course to start with - The Golf Greens. Then Jodhpur Park where I lived for the second part. Noticed that Google Earth on Ubuntu won’t load this area. Strange, I was at 50 km altitude but still getting hopeless tiles. Anyway, since potlatch runs on Yahoo Ariel Maps, I was kinda lucky. Finally concluded todays session with Gariahat Road and Gol Park. The tile links may not show much if your calender shows June 13. It’ll take a day for renderers to finish painting these tiles. Try changing to T@H and you might just see it faster.

The ride through the virtual world activated lots of memories of my school days. Have not POIed any of my homes or college or school or that cinema hall where I watched my first Hollywood flick - The Jurasic Park. Ah, those days. :) Will keep mapping for next few days till as long I get find it interesting. central areas like Esplanade or Park Street would most definately be mapped I think. Also noticed that India’s First real underground metro railway is totally missing! Shame! I would be able to help there cause I only know the first six stations. So its done for tonight.

Урын: Lake Gardens, Rajendra Prasad Colony, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700045, India

New Delhi - Malviya Nagar to Patal Nagar

Posted by thevikas on 4 март 2009 in English.

Most ways are made already. Added POIs like post boxes, bus stops, ATMs, traffic signals and pizza corners using MobileTrailExplorer. Also fixed some damages or duplicated roads by converting them to proper one ways and cuts. Seems some people work on south delhi map and cleanup the dirt without verification. This was the third time I located a deleted road.

Урын: Panchsheel Park, Hauz Khas Tehsil, South Delhi, Delhi, 110017, India

YourNavigation

Posted by thevikas on 27 ноябрь 2008 in English.

Just as I knew it has started, I have the source of gosmore and busy more than ever. Have started to map every single U turns all through the gurgaon roads and south delhi. The first edition of YOURS was of Nov 13. It had severe faults cause due to oneway tags placed wrongly or non connected ways. CP, Delhi is very bad in this matter. So did the job start. Have made some new roads in south gurgaon. also trying to understand the maxspeed tag and reaction of gosmore in that respect. Gave that tag to few ways and checking the difference of fastest and shortest routes.

Урын: Sector 62, Gurgaon, Gurugram, Haryana, India