[OSM-np] [MapKathmandu] Potential solution for missing street names

[Prabhas Pokharel]

Incredible work everyone.. the level of detail looks amazing.

Re: names... do the more institutionally connected mappers among us have
any thoughts? Nama ji? Anil ji?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Aashish Tripathee <
helloworld at aashishtripathee.com> wrote:

> I'm really surprised that there are streets without names. Naming it
> ourselves might not be such a bad idea in my opinion but we need to get the
> people living around there use the same name. If we're successful at doing
> that, even if the government keeps the names later on, they'll be bound to
> keep the names we've kept. (Whoa! )
>
> So, perhaps the challenge is getting people to use the same name that we
> keep because if we keep Aashish Marga somewhere around in Baneshwor (just
> an example) but if it's around in just OSM, that won't be useful to anyone
> at all. Names in OSM must be in-sync with what people use/are used to with.
> Just my opinion though!
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Rajeev Amatya <rajeevamatya at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> We have completed most of our comprehensive mapping in Tinkune-Koteshwor
>> area. Please have a look here:
>>
>> http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=85.34561&lat=27.68357&zoom=17
>>
>> We will probably finish up with polygons/houses next week. The house
>> polygons are only experimental and we will not spend time on it for other
>> regions. We will now move west to Sankhamul area.
>>
>> We have also tried putting few house names in the map to get an idea
>> about how they are numbered. Seems like they are numbered by taking a
>> distance from a fixed reference point, which I think is not a bad way to go
>> in Kathmandu. While most of this region had street names, I am pretty sure
>> most regions in Lalitpur and Bhaktapur do not have the names. We are adding
>> most of the street names right now from the project that the govt and the
>> EU did some 10 years ago.
>>
>> So, we wanted to start this discussion on how to tackle this issue and
>> whether it is even possible to fix this problem. Is it a good idea to give
>> names ourselves without approval from the govt? The government probably is
>> not gonna do much in the next five years.
>>
>> Let us know if you have any thoughts on this.
>>
>> Rajeev
>>
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