[OSM-np] [FOSS Nepal] Re: [MapKathmandu] Potential solution for missing street names

Tue Sep 25 09:03:25 BST 2012

@Kapil, if you guys have some time, the Bhaisepati area could look a lot
better in OSM :)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.65222&lon=85.30421&zoom=17&layers=M

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:44 AM, kapil nakhwa <kapilnakhwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I appreciate the work you guys are doing. But you guys re reminding me of
> the day when we tried naming the streets on our community. Here is the
> expperience of how we as a company tried giving something back to the
> community
> http://blog.cloudfactory.com/2012/01/crowdsourcing-the-street-names.html
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Nama Budhathoki <namabudhathoki at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Naming streets is an essential but challenging task for us. It might be
>> difficult to generate consensus even at the local level: some might want to
>> use the name of the political leader from the party they are affiliated to;
>> others might prefer to use names reflecting history/culture etc. So it is
>> more than mapping:)
>>
>> I will try to talk to couple of people if they any suggestion from their
>> past experience naming the streets in Kathmandu.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nama
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Prabhas Pokharel <
>> prabhas.pokharel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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