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.

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2 comments

  1. Zaid
    May 30, 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

  2. pranav
    May 31, 2007 at 12:20 am

    the so-called Indianization of British names :)