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 [...]

Rally De Kolkata – My experience

Eastern region of the country witness a National Rally Championship after 4 years of dormant period.Since there was a gap,this rally was really hyped about. But even though it was rally de kolkata the stages were actually held in Durgapur.
Sept 17 : Initial plan for Day 1 was a 23.5KM dirt stage with two rounds [...]

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

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.

Head scratch

It has been one whole year since I turned 21 and  I will be asked what I have learnt in last four years.
Lucky me ^_^

Past few days (including mukti09)

Last few days were hectic to me as there was lot of things that was happening around me .
6th Feb : It was Mukti 09 day ,  a national level tech fest on opensource at NIT Durgapur . Me and Arindam had to do a talk cum workshop there .Our Pre Mukti talk was canceled [...]

Finally cambridge is here : WOAH

So finally its is here,f10 cambridge ,
Scheduled my download already ,

read release notes here
download it here

Fedora on mac ..rocks

It has been two months since i bought my macbook .I mostly use my desktop for daily work and mac OSX was serving me well . However due to need i started setting fedora on my mac . Arindam did that previously and his fedora installation was fine .
After installation , i found that apart [...]

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 [...]

Back from Axis 08

Axis 08 is a tech fest organised by NIT Nagpur . We (me ,Susmit, Arindam ) went there and conducted seminar cum workshop . (our scheduled of 3.5 hrs were genoursly extended to above 8 hours over three days .) Now i am back home and have a nice time with Fever . I am [...]

Hey ! Today was Dgplug’s Birthday .

Four years ago today was the day when dgplug was born .
We are the Linux Users’ Group of Durgapur. The group officially started on Sep 8, 2004. A few small brains grouped together to populate Linux in the locality.
Kushal suggested us to hold a meetup on this regard . However due to many circumstances it [...]

Finally I own one

It has been quite a while since i was longing for a lappy . Looked through dell , lenovo and all major brands until gsoc arrived . Since my budget limiter is gone with it , I finally got it one i never thought off . An Apple MacBook .
I never considered a macbook since [...]

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 [...]

Bangalore visit .

Though my original intention was GSoC Meetup held at Google R&D office in bangalore on 28th July. I somehow succesfully converted it into a vacation which i needed very badly .
After a lot of fight i finally managed to get hold of two train tickets to bangalore via chennai .
my train to chennai (corromondol express [...]