WikiProject India

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Contents 1 Map of India 2 Rendering Server 3 Getting started 4 Rivers 5 Mapping progress 5.1 Primary contributors 6 Specific subjects 6.1 Railways 6.2 Highways 7 Events and Workshops 8 Naming 9 Data Sources 10 Districts 11 Experimental OSM map of India 11.1 Editing Files 11.2 New Proposals

Map of India

Rendering Server

See India/Rendering_server

Getting started

Advice for new users; see India/Getting_started

Rivers

The data includes some larger river banks. Actually it looks like they've been tagged waterway=river when they should have been waterway=riverbank. These are also very easy to correct based on landsat. It looks like the AND Data was based on a time when there was less water in the river. Some of the river deltas shift location over time too. here for example the rivers have perhaps flooded to form a lake sice the AND data was created.

Mapping progress

Track this at India/Mapping progress (not always up-to-date).

Primary contributors

See India/Primary contributors

Specific subjects

Railways

See Railway Mapping

Highways

See Highway Mapping

Events and Workshops

For a list of planned an previous events check India/Events

Naming

India has many languages and writing systems. The community convention is to use the Roman alphabet ('English') for the name key and to use the name in the local script for the "name:lang" key. Wherever possible, add the names in all languages that you can; this will make it possible to create maps in multiple languages.

For example, to name the city of Bangalore (Bengaluru), use the following keys and values:

Key	Value
name	Bangalore
name:kn	ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು

Where an official name exists, use it for the "name" key. If another name is more popular, it can be added using the name:alt key; in some cases it may be appropriate to place it in brackets after the official name. Sometimes the name:en key may be used as well.

Do not use abbreviated names, especially for localities. If the abbreviated name is more popular, treat it as described in the previous paragraph.

If multiple scripts are used in a name given using the name key; (e.g. name=ग्वालियर (Gwalior)), then this may cause problems when used on systems where both sets of fonts are not present. The fonts that the system cannot show may show up as empty boxes, question marks, or other meaningless forms. Use name=Gwalior, and also name:hi=ग्वालियर.

Data Sources

See India/Data sources

Districts

There are notes on creating district maps (including in Indian scripts) at Creating maps of Indian districts.

Other activities include creating wiki pages for cities and districts:

• Punjab
• Ludhiana
• Patiala District
• Patiala - A blind user from Patiala asks for map completion to use it with Loadstone - Please help: See OSM for the blind ! --Lulu-Ann 11:20, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Experimental OSM map of India

There is an experimental OSM map of India here. This may be used to experiment with tags unique to India. The source code for the map is here

Editing Files

To edit files at OSMIndia, you need account at http://bitbucket.org/ and permission may be obtained by sending request to: lawgon (AT) au-kbc.org

1. Install source control management tool Mercurial.
2. locate sample.hgrc (e.g. /usr/share/doc/mercurial-common/examples/sample.hgrc)
3. cp /usr/share/doc/mercurial-common/examples/sample.hgrc ~/.hgrc
4. Edit .hgrc (under [ui] edit username)
5. hg clone https://bitbucket.org/lawgon/osmindia/
6. cd osmindia/
7. Edit file
8. hg commit
9. hg push (here you need to provide username and password of http://bitbucket.org/)

New Proposals

With the map data getting better day by day, there is a ever growing need for the creation of new tags and icons that will be specific to India. In order to document and list the proposals for review and dicussion this page has been created. Add your proposals here for review and discussion.