Fort Cochin is marked for one of the earliest establishments of foreign trade in Kerala. The heritage walk is an awesome 6 KM journey on foot, which takes us back to the 1700′s when the Dutch, the Portuguese and the English was busy trading the wealth. The island provided them a very wonderful place to [...]
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Fort Cochin Heritage Walk Map
Fort Cochin Heritage walk attracts many tourists from around the globe. GeoHackers is preparing tourist overlay maps of the 3km walk, which takes one to the earliest settlements in Cochin. Needless to say anything else. More information are here.
Rendering Maps: A quick how-to
After a bit of mapping at the Technopark, we planned to render the map offline. This being a step towards the Fort Cochin Heritage Walk Mapping. So, I banged into the #osm channel on irc.oftc.net with the question, the first answer was Mapnik. But Mapnik, essentially, requires you to generate the Postgresql database instance out [...]
Trivandrum Mapping Party
Another party is here! The Trivandrum Mapping Party is going to be a lot of fun. SciPy.in is happening at Technopark during 12-17 Dec 2009. So, we thought to map Technopark and the adjoining regions. The Party is scheduled during 12-13 Dec. Its a day-night event. You can join us anytime. More information are at [...]
Converting log to gpx
One of the lessons from the NIT-C Mapping Party was regarding the conversion of .log files to .gpx formats. The OpenMoko, records the GPS data in .log format. But the map editors, uses gpx format. There had been two important converters suggested, one, a python script, other, a perl script. We resorted to use the [...]
Reworking NIT-C Maps
The first Mapping Party in Kerala was held at National Institute of Calicut, Calicut, during 23-24 October 2009. The event was organized by the Free Software User Group Calicut and GeoHackers. Indeed the quality was poor. As a result of few discussions on the OSM emailing lists, I have been reworking with the data we [...]
Mapping Party – How To
We had a very good experience learning more about OpenStreetMap and Mapping, through the NIT-C Mapping Party. Since then, we have been collaborating a google doc, to document the event. The How-to document is thus a part of the entire event, the geohackers initiative. Introduction Map-making or Cartography aided mankind from the time when lived [...]