<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div id="BB10_response_div" style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div id="response_div_spacer" style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just checked out fieldpapers.org </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's awesome. </div> <div id="_signaturePlaceholder" style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td id="_persistentHeaderContainer" colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Arun Ganesh</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, 7 December 2013 11:00 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>OpenStreetMap in India</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>OpenStreetMap in India</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Talk-in] OSM workshop in Mumbai tomorrow morning</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div id="_persistentHeaderEnd" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Paramvir Singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paramvir00@gmail.com" target="_blank">paramvir00@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">How was the workshop? Turnout?<div>We need more mappers in India...</div>
</div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Paramvir, we had around 16 participants mostly from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. A whole range of topics was covered which has been documented here: <a href="https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/osm">https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/osm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>We experimented with micromapping of trees on campus using field papers and it was quite successful: <a href="http://fieldpapers.org/atlas.php?id=ksw2wgqm#18/19.04235/72.92766">http://fieldpapers.org/atlas.php?id=ksw2wgqm#18/19.04235/72.92766</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>There was also a demo of how to get OSM data into QGIS to very quickly make custom maps.</div><div><br></div><div>A little background behind the workshop. The Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education and TISS are involved creating a pilot program to introduce digital literacy in colleges in he country [<a href="http://nussd.tiss.edu/">http://nussd.tiss.edu/</a>]. This workshop was an experiment to check if we will be able to introduce a mapping course using OSM in a context of limited technical resources in smaller towns and villages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This was a followup to an experiment we conducted with college students in a rural town called Talasari (100km north of Mumbai), where students who have never used maps or seen satellite imagery were asked to map their town using field papers. Here is a sample scan from one such student: <a href="http://fieldpapers.org/snapshot.php?id=ct6bd9b3#17/20.12548/72.91690">http://fieldpapers.org/snapshot.php?id=ct6bd9b3#17/20.12548/72.91690</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>We have also been collecting potential issues with all the tools and hope to get them fixed/discussed. There might be a lot of mappers from India pretty soon :)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Aditya Nag <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aditya.nag.2007@gmail.com" target="_blank">aditya.nag.2007@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Too bad I wouldn't be able to attend it. Mumbai is too far away from home and this was announced in too short a notice.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I've always wanted to attend one of these workshops since I started contributing to OSM. Maybe next time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Aditya Nag.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 05-Dec-2013 7:55 PM, "Arun Ganesh" <<a href="mailto:arun.planemad@gmail.com" target="_blank">arun.planemad@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Since I'm in the city, I'm taking hand on session on contributing to OSM to those interested at the Homi Bhaba Centre for Science Education, Anushakti Nagar. Its open for public, but please RSVP to Amit.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I expect to cover:</div><div>* Paper mapping using field papers</div><div>* Geo referencing and digitizing map scans</div><div>* OSM editing using iD</div><div>* Loading OSM data in Quantum GIS</div>
<div>* Creating basic visualization with QGIS</div><div><br></div>--<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">As a part of NUSSD Digital Literacy Trainers' Training Programme, Gnowledge Lab is organising a one day hands-on workshop on "Contributing to Open Street Map (OSM)" on 06-12-2013</span></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OSM is community driven and an open data effort to build maps with data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. The project uses diverse methods for contribution from the people and also emphasises on local knowledge.</span></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Local area mapping and contributing to OSM is one of the projects for the NUSSD Digital Literacy course. The workshop will cover the basics of mapping, and some advanced topics.</span></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For more information about the project please visit:</span></div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org</a></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The workshop will be guided by Arun Ganesh. Arun is an expert in mapping and has been contributing to the OSM project for a long time.</span></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Time: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>10 am to 3 pm</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Date: 06-12-2013</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Venue:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Room No 217,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tata Institute of Fundamental Research</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mumbai, 400088 INDIA</span></div><div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please bring your laptops for the workshop.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please forward this mail to people who might be interested.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Those who miss this workshop will be trained by those who attend this workshop.</span></div><div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RSVP: Amit Dhakulkar | </span><a href="mailto:damitr@gnowledge.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">damitr@gnowledge.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> | </span><a href="tel:9819350953" value="+919819350953" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">9819350953</a></div>
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