Hi Rupert,
Whatever works, bro!
If you want it in OSM, do it! Please copy it all over to an open street map and send us the link when you're done. Make sure the wiki functionality stays, mind! Everybody's a leader in a volunteer-based movement, that's why we call it grass-roots! Nobody orders the grass where to grow and where not to!
Last time I checked open street maps, most of india was practically empty. I remember something we did a lot in engineering days using a lamp below a glass-topped table : we'd lay out a well done engineering drawing and put our paper on top of it, and then just trace it, saved us the effort. On one occasion, it turned out the copy got better scores than the original, because while copying the person was able to find out and make much finer modifications, having the major data at hand already. But that's just a useless side story.
Is there a "my maps" in OSM?
I do have one trouble regarding the google maps - i haven't been able to find any version-preservation yet! (shh, don't tell the vandals! :P)
Cheers,
Nikhil Sheth
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:44 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 18:32, Jessie Wild <jwild@wikimedia.org> wrote:I like the plotting of volunteers on this map! Really cool idea.
On 4/19/2011 6:31 PM, Nikhil Sheth wrote:
> And here's a wiki-map I've set up so we can track schools and more
> importantly volunteers in India who can be contacted by schools and
> organizations. (Jessie created one too, but I'd started this first :P
> and this one is the rough draft type that everyone can add to, and we
> can then move concrete data from this map to Jessie's where only I and
> some others have editing access)
> http://tinyurl.com/WFSOEIndiamap
Also, I just want to clarify that anyone can edit the broader map[0] -
it does have limited editing access :)
[0] http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=
200444821566545185767.00049e894f5c32ec25b23
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Jessie Wild
Special Projects Manager
Global Development
Wikimedia Foundation
aren't we partner of openstreetmap? this would be like writing "please write your stuff not in wikipedia any more but google knowl?rupert._______________________________________________
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