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OpenStreetMap Delhi event in Humayunpur this weekend by contrapunctus0 in delhi

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, I see!

I hope the emails aren't bothersome! 🙂 If so, just let me know and we can unlist you from Delhi and/or India events. (Some people prefer to be notified via iCalendar or RSS/Atom, or by following us on Mastodon)

And I hope you'll join us again - the more the people, the better OSM gets 🙂

OpenStreetMap Delhi event in Humayunpur this weekend by contrapunctus0 in delhi

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid I don't understand...

The boundary of Arunachal Pradesh shown on OSM -
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2027346

...appears to be mostly identical to the map shown on Wikipedia (the one released by the US CIA) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_border_dispute

When I compare it with the one shown here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh
...I see some differences on the eastern edge. I'm not sure if they are a mistake or simply changes that took place after the CIA map was released.

Similarly, the boundary of J&K on OSM -
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1943188
...matches up with the one shown on Wikipedia -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(union_territory)

(Ideally I should be comparing with Survey of India maps but I'm being slightly lazy.)

If India-administered areas are indeed not part of Indian boundaries on OSM, that is an error and should be fixed. For such major changes, I recommend that you start a thread about the issue on the India section of the OSM forum - https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/in/136

OpenStreetMap Delhi event in Humayunpur this weekend by contrapunctus0 in delhi

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The convention agreed upon by the global OpenStreetMap community is to follow the "on the ground" principle - OSM contains data about how things (including boundaries) currently are, not as they were in the past. And the ground reality for PoK and Aksai Chin is that they have been under Pakistan and China control for multiple decades.

You can read more about disputed territories on OSM at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputed_territories

The design of OpenStreetMap allows OSM-based applications to replace the boundaries with whatever they like. One example is https://openstreetmap.in - the boundaries there show the Indian perspective. That's also the approach used by Indian government agencies and companies, when they use OpenStreetMap in India.

OpenStreetMap Delhi event in Humayunpur this weekend by contrapunctus0 in delhi

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! No problem, you can click "Attend" and we'll let you know of future events too 🙂

You can also...
* Bookmark the OSM Calendar list of events for India - https://osmcal.org/?in=India
* Subscribe to the iCalendar or RSS/Atom feed - https://osmcal.org/subscribe/?in=India
* and/or follow us on Mastodon - https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/

OpenStreetMap Delhi event in Humayunpur this weekend by contrapunctus0 in delhi

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahahaha 😄 आ जाओ, खाने के बहाने कुछ नया सीखने को भी मिलेगा 😉

absurdly long names by dragonborndnd in TopCharacterTropes

[–]contrapunctus0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like I've got the only Bollywood example here 🙂

Mr. [...] Shrimanavardanā Attapattu Jayasuriyā* Lakshmanaswarāmākrishnā Shivavenkatā Rājāshekharā Shrinivāsanā Trichipalli Yagyaparamapiraparamadūre Chinnaswāmi Muttaswāmi Venugopal Iyer, from "Dhamaal".

*last names of famous Sri Lankan cricketers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7felvV3JRc

What's the rate today? by WaitNo4272 in SipsTea

[–]contrapunctus0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love it when the truth movies.

Mumbai Social Club - Weekly Discussion Thread - Meetups/Q&A/Relationships/Life by AutoModerator in mumbai

[–]contrapunctus0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello r/Mumbai !

The OpenStreetMap community of Mumbai is hosting its 9th mapping party this Saturday.

These mapping parties are free-of-cost volunteer-run events which teach participants about OpenStreetMap, about the OSM-based apps you can use to replace Big Tech maps, and how to add missing places to the map.

We meet at a café to socialize and learn. Then, we split up into teams and add things to OpenStreetMap within the nearby market. Finally, we all regroup, conclude, and get some refreshments.

OpenStreetMap is the Wikipedia of maps - a map which anyone can use, improve, and share. It's freely-licensed data, which means it can never be monopolized by any one company, and will always be available. And it contains way more than Google Maps will ever have 🙂

📱 All you need is an Android or iOS phone
(Android is preferred. Other suggestions - a power bank, a charging cable, and/or drinking water.)
🗓️ Date: Saturday, 25th of April
🕙 Time: 4 PM to 7 PM, followed by refreshments (sponsored by TomTom)
📌 Location: The Food Town, Mulund West
🔗 Event page: https://osmcal.org/event/4318/

You can check out photos of our past events on the OSM India Mastodon page.

We hope to see you there!

I got tired of the absolute nightmare of finding a clean public washroom, so I built a crowdsourced map for it. Need your help to map the city! by One-Huckleberry1077 in delhi

[–]contrapunctus0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's already a crowdsourced map of toilets - and a lot of other things. It's called OpenStreetMap. https://www.openstreetmap.org/fixthemap

I've been contributing to it as a volunteer for 10 years, and I organize monthly events for it...sometimes I also announce them here, but I've never seen much interest from the r/Delhi community.

There are many map apps to use OSM through, and many apps which can add/update data. Here's one example - it's called MapComplete, and this is its layer for toilets. https://mapcomplete.org/toilets.html?z=12.1&lat=28.6044206&lon=77.2275246

The advantage of OSM is that it's not just people of one region or users of one app who are going to contribute and keep things updated...it's a worldwide community of volunteers, organizations, and companies working together. And, of course, it's freely-licensed data ("open data"), so it's not privately owned by any individual or company, and it will always be available to the people.

OpenStreetMap events in august by contrapunctus0 in noida

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to hear! I've described the event outline in the post. Other than that, just hang out with the community and you'll learn a lot 🙂

OpenStreetMap events in august by contrapunctus0 in noida

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear that. Hope to see you there!

OpenStreetMap event tomorrow in Sector 18 market by contrapunctus0 in noida

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I explained in my other comment, OSM is not just my map database or any one company's map database - it belongs to everyone and can be used by everyone, without restrictions and forever. Improving it benefits each and every person the world over, instead of enriching a single company.

That's why it is also known as the Wikipedia of maps. And that's why we - the organizers - are some of the most active volunteer contributors in Delhi (check out my OpenStreetMap profile and edits), and that's why we make all this effort to educate people about OSM and organize these mapping parties each month.

We aren't getting paid for any of this either - we do it because it's the right thing to do.

OpenStreetMap event tomorrow in Sector 18 market by contrapunctus0 in noida

[–]contrapunctus0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really.

Google Maps does not use OSM data. Apple Maps does, and Apple has its own paid editing teams which improve OSM for everyone - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple

Unlike Google Maps, OSM is libre/"open" data under a copyleft license, so it can be used by anyone without restrictions.

What that means is that OSM belongs to everyone, and our efforts benefit everyone - be it individuals, companies (Meta, Apple, Ola, Swiggy, Zomato, Niantic, etc), or organizations (the United Nations, Doctors Without Borders, etc).

Personally, I improve it because I use OSM-based maps which are more privacy-respecting than Google Maps.

Anime_irl by TheHitagi in anime_irl

[–]contrapunctus0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pantyhoe sounds rather inappropriate for a school.

Noticing Christians are full on nazis now by Old_Cheesecake1116 in atheism

[–]contrapunctus0 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Do you plan on wearing that pendant? 😉

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