[Talk-in] Newly joined this list... Have been mapping for some time

[Gora Mohanty]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:18:46 +0530
"Tanveer Singh" <tanveer1979 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> I got to know on this list from our residant fire breather, Kenneth :D.
> I live in NCR, and have recently been fixing road names around
> Connaught Place area. 
[...]

> The reason is that NHs have been added at the lowest level of zoom,
> and many times are 2-3kms off the real road, for example NH15.
[...]
> I guess we need to start working on that, and fix whatever we can. I
> have partially fixed Rohtak road, or NH10 for example, inside Delhi
> city limits, as the road was mapped 1km off the actual road in Delhi
> city, and such vague mapping in a densly populated city makes it very
> useless.

I imagine that at least some of that is auto-imported AND
data, which was quite a bit off for Delhi for some reason.

> Another area I have been mapping is Noida.
> In future when I have enough GPS trails, I will try to map HP roads,
> but due to low resolution of any satellite imagery for that area, its
> turning out to be a near impossible task. If anybody has any bright
> ideas about how to go about fixing, that, it will be great.

Is the imagery that bad that one cannot identify roads even
with actual GPS tracks?

> Last but not the least, there is problem of one ways, many roads in
> Delhi which are 2 ways have been marked as one way. So I will be
> fixing that too.
> I think its possible to map important parts of Delhi in 6 months
> fully.
> South Delhi and central south delhi are good, but north Delhi(North of
> CP) is like a wasteland, lets get active there.
[...]

We have tonnes of GPS tracks, but I am not finding the time to
map them, despite many promises. Would someone be willing to
take up the work if we make GPS tracks available? Maybe it is
time for a dedicated OSM mapping party. We could do one at
Sarai some weekend if there are enough people interested (please
email me off-list to express interest). We can also probably
find volunteers to get tracks for South, and North Delhi.

Regards,
Gora