[Talk-in] Map your waste

Yogesh योगि yogesh at karnatakaeducation.org.in
Thu Aug 13 19:19:44 UTC 2015


Slight change on the venue. This will be a decentralized mapping event 
happening at colleges in coordination with GNU/Linux User Groups.

Updated the wiki page - 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Events/Map_your_waste

Comments and suggestions welcome.

On Thursday 13 August 2015 08:13 PM, Yogesh योगि wrote:
> Its rainy season now in Bengaluru and we see clogs in sewage manholes 
> in most of the roads in the city when it rains heavily. Volunteers of 
> Free Software Movement Karnataka(FSMK) <http://fsmk.org/> are 
> organizing 'Map your waste' mapping event using OpenStreetMap and 
> requesting the OSM community to join this mapping event. The idea is 
> to survey the area in the vicinity/neighborhood for sewage manholes, 
> sewage lines and public toilets using Fieldpapers 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Field_Papers> and OSMtracker 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMtracker>/Keypad-Mapper_3 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keypad-Mapper_3>/Mapillary 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapillary> in GPS-enabled android 
> device. And then comeback to add the data to OSM using id 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Id>/JOSM 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM> editor. For adding the 
> data, we'll be using manhole=sewer 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:manhole> tag and 
> manmade=pipeline with type=sewage 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dpipeline> tags to 
> add sewage lines. Any suggestions on using tags are welcome.
>
> Currently there are no manhole 
> <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/keys/manhole#overview> or sewage 
> <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/tags/man_made=pipeline#combinations> 
> objects mapped in India OSM(different tags used?) and looks like a 
> unique mapping effort. :)
>
> More details here - 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Events/Map_your_waste,_FSMK_Bengaluru
>
> -- 
> Yogesh K S
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Yogesh K S
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