From 603aaf4a9eb805e272df4be94f6e1088ac64acf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akshay S Dinesh Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 00:38:18 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] retain old markdown content as it is, also retain URLs --- src/pages/about.md | 87 ++++++++++++++++ src/pages/activities/ipms-webinar-oct-2020.md | 31 ++++++ ...ro => building-osm-kerala-community.astro} | 0 src/pages/building-osm-kerala-community.md | 99 +++++++++++++++++++ ...hon-keralam-osm-community-statement.astro} | 0 ...apathon-keralam-osm-community-statement.md | 43 ++++++++ 6 files changed, 260 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/pages/about.md create mode 100644 src/pages/activities/ipms-webinar-oct-2020.md rename src/pages/{community.astro => building-osm-kerala-community.astro} (100%) create mode 100644 src/pages/building-osm-kerala-community.md rename src/pages/{statement.astro => mapathon-keralam-osm-community-statement.astro} (100%) create mode 100644 src/pages/mapathon-keralam-osm-community-statement.md diff --git a/src/pages/about.md b/src/pages/about.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..81c464a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pages/about.md @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ ++++ +title = "About us" ++++ + + +{{< block "grid-2 mt-2" >}} +{{< column >}} +# About Us +we are a group of people who love maps and want to keep that data open. +Openstreetmap activities in India started active from 2007. +OSM Kerala Community has been very active over the past 13 years. + +Community has been mapping various features over the years. +During the 2018 floods, Openstreetmaps was widely used. +Community has been actively enaging with various partners. + +##### Boundaries +###### Administrative +* State Boundaries +* District Boundaries +* Taluk Boundaries +###### Political +* Lok Sabha Constituencies +* Assembly Constituencies +###### Local Govt Bodies +* Local Bodies in KeralaYes check.svg +* Local Bodies Wards in Kerala + +##### Environment +* Rivers +* Lakes +* Reservoirs +* Lagoons and Estuaries +* Water Streams +* Ponds +* Forests + +##### Roads +* National Highway +* State Highway +* Major District road + +##### Railways +* Railways Stations +* Kochi Metro +* Proposed Silverline (K-rail) + +##### Amenity +* Police station +* Fire and Rescue station +* Health Facilities in Kerala + +### Activies +* Mapathons +* Webinars +* +* + +{{< /column >}} +{{< column >}} +![diy](/images/osmkerala_logo.svg) +{{< /column >}} +{{< /block >}} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/pages/activities/ipms-webinar-oct-2020.md b/src/pages/activities/ipms-webinar-oct-2020.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7663fed --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pages/activities/ipms-webinar-oct-2020.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: "../../layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro" +title: "Intelligent Property Management System; Webinar Participation Report" +date: 2020-10-14 +draft: false +description: "Event Report on IPMS Webinar jointly organised by KILA and ULTS on Oct 2020" +author: manojk +authors: ["manojk"] +tags: ["IPMS", "Mapathon"] +--- +# Report of event participation + +Event was jointly organised by KILA and ULTS. +Joy Elaman (KILA director) briefed about the importance of GIS and welcomed the participants. Dr Harilal inaugurated the event and briefed about the history of GIS in Kerala. + +Nizamuddin (Kerala landuse board and KSREC) gave a demo on (https://kattakadalac.com/). Project has collected lot of data in that LAC. He also explained plans of expanding that project. When asked about releasing that as opendata, there was no response in the chat. + +Both Jake (ULTS) and Sreekandan (GPK,Karakulam) explained how they done LSGD’s IPMS project. ULTS had kept the personal data open for a while. Once the issue was raised, it has been rectified. GPK has a staging server. Personal data is open right now. Sreekandan has conveyed that in the next release it will be accessible only to LSG authority. It would very good if IMPS geo data is released under opendata. Geo Data developed by ULTS is based on drone mapping. OpenStreetMap Kerala community should contact LSG department and ask to release relevant data as opendata. Otherwise both IPMS project and Mapathon Kerala (from IT Dept) are trying to duplicate the data. And it is a waste of public fund. IPMS is hosting website local for each LSGD. + +In the end, Monish Jose (Assistant professor, KILA) explained on the usage of GIS in LSGs. KILA mainly trains LSG officials/staff on GIS and plan based on GIS. There was a description of activities KILA was doing in GIS. He explained the need for contacting citizen mappers. + +There was no QA session. #IPMS + +--- + +Report by : Kevin, Arjun, Jaisen, Manoj , Naveen + +--- + +* https://www.facebook.com/kilatcr/photos/a.144104855788740/1413374498861763/?type=3&theater +* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kerala/Kerala_government_GIS_initiatives#Cost_of_Mapping \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/pages/community.astro b/src/pages/building-osm-kerala-community.astro similarity index 100% rename from src/pages/community.astro rename to src/pages/building-osm-kerala-community.astro diff --git a/src/pages/building-osm-kerala-community.md b/src/pages/building-osm-kerala-community.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f7f471 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pages/building-osm-kerala-community.md @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +--- +title: "Building OSM Kerala Community" +date: 2020-10-26T10:34:54+05:30 +draft: false +description: "Building OpenStreetMap Kerala Community" +author: osmkerala +authors: ["osmkerala"] +tags: ["OpenStreetMap", "Mapathon"] +--- +# Building OSM Kerala Community + +OpenStreetMap was founded by Steve Coast in 2004, in focus to create a Free and Open collaborative editable mapping platform for all like wikipedia. In 2006 Openstreet map foundation was established to encourage the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data. + +## Before Kerala Flood +Events https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kerala/Events + +### NITC mapping party - October 23-24, 2009 +This is the first OSM Mapping Party documented in Kerala, held at National Institute of Technology Calicut. This was in co-operation with the Free Software User Group Calicut (FSUG-CALICUT). 36 Volunteers attended the event. +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NITC_mapping_party_oct_24 + +### Trivandrum mapping party - December 12-13, 2009 +13 Volunteers attended the mapping party to map the Technopark and adjoining areas of it. +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Trivandrum_mapping_party_12_dec + +### Koorachundu Panchayat Mapathon - July 21-24, 2014 +23 Volunteer from OSM community, MG University, Swathandra Malayalam Computingtu attended the mapping party to map the areas of Koorachundu Panchayat, Kozhikode ,Kerala. This was hosted by Panchayat in an aim to prepare a ward level map for the upcomming LSGI election. Koorachundu Panchayat Mapathon was first of this kind that a government body in India (documented) took an initiative to host an event to create a map on a community level. This paved way for many mapping events to happen from government side. Jaisen Nedumpala the then Asst. Secratary in the panchayat and OSM volunteer led the party. Volunteers ark Arjun, Manoj Karingamadathil helped in organising the event. +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/KoorachunduPanchayatMapathon + +### Unnikulam Mapping Exercise - August 21, 2014 +This was organised gaining energy from Koorachundu Panchayat Mapathon. In response to the State Election Commissions instructions, to draw a map of Unnikulam Grama Panchayat with ward boundaries, potential polling booths and other features, a mapping exercise was conducted. Student volunteer participants from a college nearby, surveyed the area upon the instructions of Jaisen Nedumpala. The data collected from field, was processed from grama panchayat office by the volunteers. The data then processed, uploaded to OSM and made a ward map of unnikulamgp grama panchayat, and was duly submitted to the State Election Commission. + +### OSM Mapping Workshop June 2016 – Vidya Academy, June 18-19, 2016 +2 Day Mapping Workshop and Vidya Academy Campus Mapping Conducted on 18,19 June 2016. 56 Students Participated. Mapping Party was Conducted Associated with Vidya Academy - NSS Cell, Veelor Grama Panchayat (Local Government), Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and National Service Scheme - Technical Cell. The Program was Lead byMano.jj Karingamadathil, Jaisen Nedumpala , Kishore. In this Programs experimented to 3d maps and also tree mapping of the campus. +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Mapping_Workshop_June_2016_%E2%80%93_Vidya_Academy + +### Velur Panchayath Mapping Party - July 20-25, 2016 +NSS Unit of Vidya Academy of Science & Technology, Thrissur in association with Velur village panchayat Local Government Body, OSM Kerala and Swathanthra Malayalam Computing conducted a Mapping Party of Veloor is a village and panchayat in Thalapilly taluk, Thrissur district, Keralam 20-07-2016 (Thursday) to 25-07-2016(Monday). It was attempted to map macro level features of panchayath. 170+ NSS Volunters participated. +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Velur_Panchayath_Mapping_Party + +### FSUG Thrissur Mapping Party - August 13, 2017 +An outdoor mapping party at Thrissur on 13th of August 2017, conducted by FSUG Thrissur. Important locations near Thrissur Swaraj round will be added and the program will start at 3.00pm. +https://poddery.com/posts/3218096 + +### Nenmanda Mapping Party + + +## After Kerala Flood 2018 + +During the flood, developers in Kerala came together to make keralarescue.in and microid.in/keralaflood. Both helped a lot during the flood. Both used OpenStreetMap data. +keralaresuce.in - Requests for help were collected, organized and shown in maps for help to reach +microid.in/keralaflood - A map to see the flooded roads. Useful while travelling + +### Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team +During Kerala floods 2018, there were lot of data addition. Kerala community approached to HOTOSM and created tasks for affected region. Road and building tasks were created for Thrissur, Ernakulam, Pathanamthitta, Wayanad, Alleppey, Idukki districts. Community reached out to companies like Microsoft, Grab, Amazon Logistics, Mapbox for support. Maxar Technologies (Digital Globe) released satellite imagery through their Open data program. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2018_Kerala_Floods,_India + +### Facebook +OSM Kerala community reached out to Facebook during floods to help mapping in Kerala. Facebook agreed to help. Facebook has released an open dataset of ML detected roads from high resolution imagery for the entire state following a request from the community. Road import was done by the collabarotion Facebook with collabaration with community https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kerala_Road_Import https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2018_India_Disaster_Response_Mapping + +### FOSSers of Vidya Academy of Science & Technology +Association with FOSSers of Vidya Academy of Science & Technology, HOTOSM, OSM Kerala Community and various organisations doing our first Mapathon for Kerala Flood 2018. Target is to complate 3 taluks Mukundapuram,Chalakkudy and Thrissur. 36 volunteers through registered through google forms. In under 5 hours of working, we were able to do : 4,388 edits , 2,799 buildings , 118 km roads, Map Lakes, Streams, etc. +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kerala_Community_Flood_Response_Mapping#Sep_15_-_Software_freedom_day_at_Thrissur.2C_Kerala + +### State of the Map Asia 2018 +OSM Kerala community members meet during SOTM Asia 2018 in Nov 2. It was the first time many of the community members met each other. Post SOTM 2018, telegram group which was created during 2016 was activated in November 2018. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:OSM_Kerala_Community_at_State_of_the_Map_Asia_2018_IIM_Bengaluru_India_26.jpg Kerala Flood Related Presentation featured in National Media + +### OpenStreetMap Mapathon held at PG centre, Thrissur on Aaron Swartz day. +OpenStreetMap Mapathon conducted on the occasion of Aaron Swartz day on 2019 November 9. FSUG members Ambady Anand S, Manoj Karingamadathil, Siji, Subin Siby, Harish Karumuthil, Athul Raj, Rachna RJ, Joseph ND, Ranjith Panikkal, Reon James, Shyam G Krishnan, Adithyan Pk, Akhil Varkey contributed to map district road in Thrissur Dist areas. http://thrissur.fsug.in/img/events/osm.jpg + + +### Koorachundu Mapping - December 22-28, 2018 +As extention to the previous mapping party held at Koorachundu Panchayath on 2014, the panchayat decided to host another mapping for creating a rich resource map layers. National Service Scheme volunteers from three colleges camped in the panchayat for 22-28 of December 2018. 220 student volunteers were trained to map with OSM. The technical support for the event was provided by OSM Kerala community, Swathantra Malayalam Computing and Geominds. Different features were added to the OSM focussing to add the Place Names , Roads, Lanes, Culverts, Bridges, Land use Land cover, Building Footprints and numbers, Drinking Water Schemes, Forest, Streams, Rivers, Hot springs, Ponds, Public wells, Water tanks, Tourist, Religious and Recreational spots, Irrigation, Public health systems and Other Assets. Places which had floods and Landslides were mapped in the disaster management point of view. Muzirian, Arkarjun, Aruna(OSM India), Manoj Karingamadathil, Manu Krishnan T.V helped Jaisen Nedumpala in organising the Mapping party and training the volunteers. +https://blog.smc.org.in/koorachundu-gramapanchayath-mapping-party-2-0/ +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Koorachundu_Panchayat_Mapathon_2018 + +### Floods in 2019 +During Kerala floods 2019, mapping for Malappuram and Kozhikode districts started in HOTOSM tasking manager. +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2019_India_Disaster_Response_Mapping + +### Landslides in 2020 +During Kerala Landslides 2020, OSM Kerala community started mapping Munnar Panchayat. Due to COVID19 OSM community came together for Virtual meetup. +https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2020_India_Disaster_Response_Mapping + + +## Reaching out to Kerala Government- Mapathon Keralam Campaign + +OSM Kerala community members urgued the need of improvement of OSM data in Kerala post floods in 2018. Community members sumbitted the proposal to release important datasets in Opendata license.Community member User:Naveenpf talked/reached out to Minister Dr Thomas Iaasc, MLAs like Sabarinathan, Veena George, Shafi Parambil, VD Satheesan. Dr Thomas Iaasc asked to contact Potheri Vasudevan Unnikrishnan, Strategic Advisor ,Kerala Development Innovation Strategic Council. + +August 28th 2018, Proposal to Kerala government for releasing data for use in OSM - jointly written by community members in OSM Kerala and friends in CIS was submitted to then IT Secretary, IT Mission director and ICFOSS Director. There was a in person meeting then ICFOSS Director Jayasankar Prasad and Naveen Francis on the proposal on September 15. On 16th September 2018, Director Jayasankar Prasad and community member could convince the need to improve OSM then IT Secretary. And he asked the OSM Kerala communty to engage with ICFOSS. + +Parallel efforts for creating Kerala Opendata portal was taken up with then IT Mission Director Sambasiva Rao by OSM Kerala community member User:Naveenpf. Sambasiva Director agreed to create Kerala Opendata portal on September 21, 2018. + +On Nov 2,2018, OSM Kerala community was invited to take part in ICSET 2018 to present about OpenstreetMap. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cPvQUm7LZw&t=2s]. User:Naveenpf presented the 'Openstreetmap in Education' during ICSET 2018. IT Secretary was asking students came for ICSET 2018, to edit in Openstreetmap and he also urged the need of good map of Kerala. + +On Nov 3, 2018, OSM Kerala community member User:Naveenpf meet with Biju, e-governance engineer Public Works Department. We talked about releasing KSTP data on NH, SH and MDR. On the same day we tried to have in person meeting with KSREC Director. + +On the request from the Arun, GIS Head from ICFOSS, Wayanad OSM pilot report was send to Government by User:Naveenpf and User:Muzrian on November 27, 2018. Later for OSM pilot,OSM community created road project and building project for Wayanad. It was created in mapmykerala.in instance. + +OSM Kerala volunteers had travelled to Thrivanathapuram for IT Mission meeting. KSITM KSDI’s Mapathon Kerala project community consultation was held on March 8 2019 2.30PM. It was a OSM Kerala community pre-consultation on crowd Sourcing data for OSM. The meeting was presided by Dr Chitra , Director KSITM. OSM Volunteers attended - User:Manojk,User:Muzirian,User:Jaisuvyas,User:Naveenpf. +Link the minutes:- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/f/fd/Mapathon-Minutes.pdf \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/pages/statement.astro b/src/pages/mapathon-keralam-osm-community-statement.astro similarity index 100% rename from src/pages/statement.astro rename to src/pages/mapathon-keralam-osm-community-statement.astro diff --git a/src/pages/mapathon-keralam-osm-community-statement.md b/src/pages/mapathon-keralam-osm-community-statement.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..509a512 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pages/mapathon-keralam-osm-community-statement.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +layout: "../layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro" +title: "Mapathon Keralam and OpenStreetMap Community Collaboration" +date: 2020-08-20T17:53:58+05:30 +draft: false +description: "Letter to Director Kerala IT Mission, behalf of the OpenStreetMap India Community on 14 September 2020" +author: manojk +authors: ["manojk"] +tags: ["OpenStreetMap", "Mapathon"] +--- +# Mapathon Keralam and OpenStreetMap Community Collaboration +> [This is the letter to Director Kerala IT Mission, behalf of the OpenStreetMap India Community on 14 September 2020 (PDF)](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Mapathon_Keralam_and_OpenStreetMap_Community_Collaboration.pdf) + +Dear Smt. Chithra, + +We are writing this letter on behalf of the OpenStreetMap India Community. We are part of the global OpenStreetMapmovement and have a history of mapping country for over 15 years. Our community members are spread acrossIndia, representing its vast geographic and cultural diversity. Day in and day out, they contribute and maintain, whatright now, is the largest open map of India. + +Your leadership and commitment to OpenStreetMap through the Mapathon Keralam Project has been incrediblypowerful for our movement. This has gained international attention and truly put our humble community literally on themap. The Government of Kerala’s official adoption state-wide for several development as well as disaster recoveryand resilience projects is a huge motivation and a recognition of years of the communities’ hard work. + +The community has a lot to offer in supporting new mappers, collaborating on quality analysis, and growing MapathonKeralam. The recent efforts to document[1][2] the Mapathon Keralam projects and responding to questions from theOpenStreetMap Kerala mapper community has greatly helped to establish a positive relationship between MapathonKeralam and the hundreds of thousands of volunteers that make up the global OpenStreetMap community. Our hopeas part of the OpenStreetMap community is to build on this relationship to make Mapathon Keralam an IT case studyof how the state can successfully partner with a global open source collaborative project. For this, we request yourleadership to address the following action items: +## 1.Appoint a community coordinator +Organised editing in OpenStreetMap requires close collaboration with the community. A community coordinator’s roleis crucial to engage with members outside your organisation to ensure that mapping projects run smoothly and wecan hold ourselves to a high degree of quality. The coordinator will be responsible for responding to questions fromthe community and act on behalf of mappers of your organisation. The coordinator can discuss consensus within thecommunity, gather feedback, and contribute to training of your mappers. +## 2. Follow OpenStreetMap organised editing guidelines +There are hundreds of volunteer mappers as part of the OpenStreetMap Kerala community who are improving theopen map of Kerala outside of Mapathon Keralam. Documenting the scope, goals and detailed workflow of eachmapping project ensures a high quality of output. Your team has already opened a Wiki page specific for projectsunder Mapathon Keralam[2] and request you to continue to do this for all future projects as well. Mappingadministrative boundaries, river streams, public offices all should either have their own specific documentation orregional mapping pages that clearly document the project workflow so it can be reviewed by the OpenStreetMapcommunity for feedback and approval. Mapathon Keralam generates a large volume of data, and an improperworkflow can easily result in poor quality data that is not usable for any purpose. This documentation should follow [OpenStreetMap Organized Editing Guidelines.](https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines) + +Acting on these two above points will establish positive partnership where both Mapathon Keralam and theOpenStreetMap Project mutually benefit of each others’ success. Collectively, the OpenStreetMap Kerala communityhas decades of field mapping experience that can be a great asset for the Mapathon Keralam project and help inproducing the high quality of map data. The mapping community had previously reviewed the output of MapathonKeralam and identified several basic data quality issues[3] that could have been avoided with better coordination withthe community. + +We would be happy if you convene a meeting to discuss implementation of these steps and how the OpenStreetMapcommunity at large can be helpful in this endeavour. + +This letter and statement is endorsed by the following OpenStreetMap Kerala and India community members: + +1. Sajjad Anwar (geohacker) +2. Naveen Francis (naveenpf) +3. Manoj K (manojkmohan) +4. Arun Ganesh (planemad) +5. Satyakam Goswami (Satyaakam) +6. Kelvin Matthew (muzirian) +7. Arjun ARK (ark_arjun) + +--- +1. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapathon_Keralam +2. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stream_Cleaning_-_Harita_Kerala_Mission +3. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kerala_State_IT_Mission#Common_Mistakes