Mapping party@ Durgapur and neighboring places (16th and 17th Oct 2009)

There has been a discussion between Indranil Das Gupta and us regarding the problem we face due to lack of GPS devices and some more mapping parties in Durgapur area.
On 16th and 17th we decided  to map  Durgapur and neighboring places. Primarily Kushal wanted to map his village and we decided to help him to [...]

Mapping party in Kolkata_Aug 2009

On August 9th,2009(Sunday) we are having a mini mapping party in Sontoshpur/Jadavpur area of Kolkata.Its a 8hr mapping spree with socializing afterward.
Check http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kolkata_Mini_Mapping_Party_August_2009
So If you are in Kolkata at that time and have interest in OSM, Please do join the party

Random Scriblings

Tommorow I will be going to Jamshedpur(India) to attend my brother’s wedding, Since Jamshedpur has almost no data for openstreetmap . I am taking  my GPS with me. Hope to do some traces.
On the other news :
1 ) openstreetmap.org home is now available in 4 languages : German, French,Icelandic ,Slovanian and some partial spanish .
Thanks [...]

Server Downtime(API 0.6 going live ) 17th-19th April 2009

“Expect server downtime during that period. The current API will go into Read Only mode at 10:00am BST (9:00 UTC) Friday 17th April. You might need to upgrade your editor to use the new API after the work is complete. There may also be some hiccups in the following days.”
Technical Details here.
Announcement is here.

Google Summer of Code 2009

Well, like previous year  this year we are also in Google Summer of Code 2009. So if you are interested in OpenStreetMap, This is the right time to do so. You can take a look at potential project applications here.

Random Scriblings

Theres quite lot to  say :
1. Gave one more talk on OSM at mukti 09
2. Visited Kolkata Book Fair and help folks at IOTA stall .It was awesome .Detailed blog coming up
3. Fedora talk at mukti 09 on 6th .Event page up (need suggestions)
4.Visited bijra today and had lot of feedback (complaints) from them .
5. [...]

First Barcamp and Tweetup at Kolkata

At last kolkata got its way to barcamp and tweetup , Though situation of the city made its presence on the people attending the barcamp.
I reached barcamp venue at IITKGP EXT center at around 10:15 AM .The preparation were still going on , However people started coming only after 11 . However organiser decided to [...]

An AND discrepancy

Here’s a small sample of AND data and yahoo imagery .

Its Grand Trunk Road (NH 2)
The green line is the AND data and the line parrallel to it is from yahoo . The gap is big .Need to edit

OSM Mapping started for me

Finally i started mapping for OpenStreetMap .. I got a garmin etrex vista for which i paid 7k extra and got it for 15k INR
I got two vehicles at disposal and i am using them for mapping long distances .some pics :

Some mapping have been done for my city ..and facing problems with AND data [...]

GSoC meetup at Google R&D Bangalore office.

28th july was scheduled for the meetup about which i was very excited. Reached Bangalore on 27th and rested for the day .
On 28th reached Google’s office at old madras road . At reception me along with other GSoC students were given stickers on which our names were printed . We were recieved by Aishwarya [...]

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin For JOSM –status == complete

*phew * after a lot of silly mistakes and fight ..finally gpsbabel plug in available for josm ..that what i can say watching by JOSM firing up a nice gpsbabel gui in my machine .
Thanks a lot to my Mentor Raphael Mack . and Josm Dev people for bearing all the silly mistake and i [...]

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin Update

My plugin is working in linux well and good . Only thing remaing is to integrate it in JOSM . Here are few screenshots .

Now just a test in windows is left ..and will be done by today .. need a place to share my code .

[GSoC] Gpsbabel plugin status report

I finally finished my exam and started coding at full power .
In the last 15 hours of work i have done the following :-
1. Redesigned the gui and  finished adding functinality to GUI .
2. Executing gpsbabel via the gui – > work on progress . Here i am stuck because i dont have a gps [...]

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin for JOSM post 1u1

I mainly maintain my contact with my mentor Raphael Mack via email . so after some discussions and some ideas from my mentor . I finally managed to make a GUI on which I will be continuing my work .
My plugin is divided in three part .
1.  GUI itself(design with Netbeans used Metal theme as [...]

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin for JOSM – post 1

My GSoC proposal is a three module part , of which I am posting about my first module .
GPSBabel (for who dont know ) is a utility tool to download gps data in various format from your gps device ,phone etc . Since my proposal aims at a smoother flow of gps data from GPS [...]