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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/06/2015 8:41 PM, john whelan
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we make an effort to map one bit of India remotely ideally one
that has a few mappers in it or users and see if it can grow
from there? Any NGOs operating in India?<br>
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If possible it should be a place where tourist go. I'd think tourist
would be interested in OSM as an out of contact thing so as not to
run up charges and they may be more familiar with OSM. <br>
That would give some encouragement for local hotels, restaurants etc
to be on OSM. Maybe a local school could then have it as a pratical
computing class to add such on the ground data... <br>
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there are mappers in Bangladesh or East Bengal as it used to
be called before it split from India perhaps they might have
some ideas? Yes I am aware that India is a very large place.<br>
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John<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 June 2015 at 22:01, Arun Ganesh <span
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enough. Although a quick mapcompare session shows
that GM has<br>
nowhere near the quality that it has in
Europe/America, so it should<br>
be less work for OSM to overtake GM in India than it
took in Europe (I<br>
know, if the community is tiny, "less overall work"
is still way more<br>
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<div>Businesses throughout the country want to list
themselves on GM to get more customers. I have been
to remote parts of the country where hoteliers or
shop owners ask me how they can be listed. This POI
database is massive and along with it comes address
information which is data gold in India for
geocoding. There is low business incentive for
anyone to list themselves on OSM, moreover the
computer skills to do that is lacking by most
people. If there were more users of openstreetmap,
this can change quickly.</div>
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point out an interesting bit of information though:
GM is for<br>
English speakers. Do you render a Hindi (and other
languages)<br>
slippymap ? Provide Hindi OSMand and Garmin maps ?
That might catch<br>
the attention of many users. In Ireland we have an
all-Gaelic map<br>
(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/?zoom=9&layers=00BFFFFFF&lat=52.92847&lon=-7.65252"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/?zoom=9&layers=00BFFFFFF&lat=52.92847&lon=-7.65252</a>)<br>
that attracts people from outside OSM.<br>
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Its a given that most users of new technology in the
country are familiar with English, or atleast the Latin
alphabet. One may not be able to speak the language but
can easily read street signs and it is more familiar
than localized signage. We have had trials with
localized maps <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://yogiks.github.io/osm-kn/map/"
target="_blank">http://yogiks.github.io/osm-kn/map/</a>
but apart from being good PR they have limited practical
use in daily life.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">We would need to support 22
languages and in offline mediums to make the maps truly
accessible to most of the people. Till then maps will
continue to be used only by a small class of the
population..<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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