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

Arun Ganesh arun.planemad at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 07:32:21 UTC 2017


Sarath, it looks like mapbox-gl-boundaries plugin is correcting the
boundaries as expected. Can you describe exactly on which part of the
boundary you are seeing an issue?

On the first load it takes a second for the extended boundaries to show up,
but should be fine after that.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Sajjad Anwar <me at sajjad.in> wrote:

> Looks like a blip - I can see the website now.
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Sajjad Anwar <me at sajjad.in> wrote:
> > Hey Sarath -
> >
> > Looks like the website is down? Could you post a screenshot of the
> > boundary mismatches you are seeing? Happy to help. (I work at Mapbox)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sajjad
> >
> > 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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> > Sajjad Anwar http://geohacker.in
>
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