[Talk-in] Map of InternetShutdowns in India - Need Help!

srinivas kodali iota.kodali at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 16:24:00 UTC 2017


I kinda posted in a rush, what is the issue again? I see that the map on
internetshutdowns.in is close to India's official boundaries. Is it just
with the styling listed in Readme file?



Regards,
Srinivas Kodali
www.lostprogrammer.com

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:43 PM, srinivas kodali <iota.kodali at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is a guide to use the openstreetmap.in server with accurate
> boundaries https://github.com/osm-in/openstreetmap.in#using-this-map
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas Kodali
> www.lostprogrammer.com
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Sarath M S <sarath at sflc.in> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We just launched a website[1] to keep track of the increasing incidents
>> of Internet Shutdowns in India. So far we have collected information
>> about 62 such incidents across India. You can read more about the issue
>> on the site[2].
>>
>> Apart from the sharing the work and inviting contributions[3], I am
>> writing this to seek help in fixing the problem with India's borders
>> with Pakistan and China showing up in a way that the Government of India
>> doesn't like. Within a few hours of launching the site, we have already
>> received a mail complaining about this.
>>
>> What we tried:
>>
>> * We used the mapbox-gl-boundaries[4] library to switch to the claimed
>> boundaries. The map styles differ from the example used in the README.md
>> file.
>>
>> * A couple of friends from Mapbox helped out with changing the polygons
>> on the state. We also tried using the district and state polygons from
>> datameet.
>>
>> Is there a known fix to this? What else can be done?
>>
>>  [1] http://internetshutdows.in
>>  [2] http://internetshutdowns.in/about
>>  [3] https://gitlab.com/sflcin/internetshutdowns/tree/webapp
>>  [4] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-boundaries
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sarath
>> Technologist, SFLC.in
>>
>>
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