Open Source Mapping of Mumbai
As part of Where 2.0, O’Reilly author, Schuyler Erle, gave a talk about how the city of Mumbai was mapped in extensive detail using only free software, consumer devices and a lot of walking. A team of local architects working on public housing projects sought the help of CRIT, who sent a group of surveyors onto the streets with cheap, off the shelf GPS units. The extensively detailed map is open sourced at mumbai.freemap.in.
May 30th, 2007 at 2:10 am
This is amazing–so what if it takes the Internet to give names to Indian roads.
I wonder how they’ll deal with rapid name changes that comes every now and then when government changes. For now I’ll stick with “doodhwale ke opposite” format of direction:)
–Zaid
May 31st, 2007 at 12:20 am
the so-called Indianization of British names