WikiProject Bangladesh
 Bangladesh, Asia
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Bangladesh is a country in Asia at latitude 23.7, longitude 90.231.
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This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to Bangladesh. Any guides or conventions on this page can be discusses on the discussion page, feel free to comment or help (mapping your area, tagging streets or correcting this page).
So far Bangladesh has only few users, most of them living in Dhaka. Hopefully people will start joining the project.
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History
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (1986-), a Lecturer of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and technology (BUET), felt the necessity of taking proper initiatives of starting OpenStreetMap in Bangladesh. In July 2010, he attended the annual meeting of OpenStreetMap, called State of the Map (SotM) and presented the "State of Bangladesh". As a part of the scholarship, Ishtiaque got 5 GPS units from the OpenStreetMap Foundation. But it took some time to get those GPS units in Bangladesh.
In January 2011, a working group is being established by Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and technology (BUET). The OSM Foundation made a generous donation of 5 GPS devices to this working group to kick-start their work. This is likely to mean a change in the pace of progress for the map in Bangladesh.
In March 2011, The Chittagong branch of OSM Bangladesh was formed. Chittagong is the second largest city of Bangladesh. Two young Lecturers of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) took the initiative to form it. They got one of the five GPS units OSM-BD received from OSM Foundation.
Communication
OpenStreetMap Bangladesh mailing list: talk-bd
IRC channel: #osm-bd on irc.oftc.net mibbit client
Facebook group: [1]
Conventions
For the time being we are following the usual conventions of OpenStreetMap. However, we are inviting suggestions on this.
Roads
We are currently looking into the development of a tagging scheme for Roads in Balgladesh, with some of this based on Road Calssifications as defined by the Roads and Highways Department of the Ministry of Communications (RHD).
Proposals
2 Proposals for Main Road Tpyes:
| OSM tag | Mapnik Rendering | RHD Classification | Comment |
| highway=motorway | blue | None | Use should be discouraged for now |
| highway=trunk | green | National Highways | All N roads |
| highway=primary | red | Regional Highways | All R roads |
| highway=secondary | orange | Zilla roads | All Z roads |
| highway=tertiary | yellow | None | Major local roads, to be judged by the mapper |
| highway=unslassified | white | None | Minor local roads, to be judged by the mapper |
| OSM tag | Mapnik Rendering | RHD Classification | Comment |
| highway=motorway | blue | None | Use should be discouraged for now |
| highway=trunk | green | National Highways | N1 - N8 |
| highway=primary | red | National Highways | All other N roads |
| highway=secondary | orange | Regional Highways | All R roads |
| highway=tertiary | yellow | Zilla roads | All Z roads |
| highway=unslassified | white | None | Local roads |
Other Road Types:
| OSM tag | RHD Classification | Comment |
| highway=resedential | None | City roads that are mostly for access to housing |
| highway=service | None | Alleys, etc |
| highway=living_street | None | City streets in high density areas, pedestrian priority |
| highway=footway | None | Paths that are not accessible by cars |
Goals
If you have a goal that you are working towards or one that you would like to see get done (and are maybe willing to get the ball rolling) then add it to the list here, create a section where it can be coordinated and tracked, and a way of measuring progress.
Maps
How to participate?
If you have a GPS device:
- upload your tracks and edit them :)
If you haven't any GPS but are still willing to contribute you can participate in many ways:
- you can enhance this wiki page :)
- you can take contact with other wiki sites (Wikipedia, Banglapedia, Wikitravel, etc.) and provide them with image of already mapped area
- you can inventoriate and tagg, using Potlatch with Yahoo imagery or using JOSM if it is already in a mapped area, any POI (point of interest). I think here about schools, universities, hospitals, restaurant, tourist sites or attraction, monuments, parks, train station, piers, etc.
- you can start adding the Bangla translation to the taggs, city and village names, etc.
- you can add the names to the river. There are so many of them! Often it is necessary to ask the locals for the name of the river.
- you can take contact with some public surveying institutions and ask them about the licencing of their data. Is there any of their geodata that are compatible with the OpenStreetMap opencontent licence?
- You can start mapping bus road or train tracks (using relations) - perhaps take contact with the main coach to ask about their road and their stop?
- you can download all the data from the Bangladesh area (take a while because the rivers takes a lot of place!), and make a .img file (with mkgmap) ready to be uploaded to your Garmin or your phone. You can eventually let people know about where one can access it by mentioning it at this page OSM Map On Garmin/Download
Mapping Projects
- MapBUET: This was the first project done by the students of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and technology (BUET). They took a number of waypoints with their Garmins and made map of the campus using JOSM. Finally they donated the map to OSM. Link: BUET. This map was given to the freshers who joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of BUET in February, 2011 (CSE 2010 Batch). The people who were involved in making this map are: Sufian Latif, K. M. Rakibul Islam. Md. Monjurul Islam Khan, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ishrat Ahmed and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
- Mapping Old Dhaka: Old Dhaka is the older part of the Dhaka City. It is very congested, crowded and over-populated place. The streets are very narrow and traffic jams are very common occurrences there. There are some very old and risky buildings in this part of the city which cause severe accidents. Moreover, some severe fire-accidents take place here in every year. Hence, the OSM group decided to map Old Dhaka. In February 26, 2011. 5 groups of mappers covered different parts of Old Dhaka and gathered GPS traces. This project is still going on. The people who were involved in this project include Sufian Latif, K. M. Rakibul Islam, Monjurul Islam Khan, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Anika Anwar, Ishrat Ahmed, Samiha Samrose, Aniqua Zahra Qazi, Rafid Wahid Yaad, Shabnam Basera Rishta, Zawad Hossain, Nazia Nusrat Shoumi, Maliha fawzia farah, Arefin Khan, Muhammad Hussain Mahdi and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
- Mapping Sylhet City: Sylhet division occupies the north east part of Bangladesh, has an area of 12596 sq. km and a population of 7.899 million. There are 4 districts and 14 municipalities under Sylhet. It is a natural hilly, forest area with ox bow lakes and famous shrines. Sylhet city is nestled in the picturesque Surma Valley amidst scenic tea plantations and lush green tropical forests, greater Sylhet is a prime attraction for all tourists visiting Bangladesh. To attract more tourists I (Anup Datta) have decided to map (GIS) Sylhet City's Transport Network, all tourist spots and available facilities.
- Mapping at Chittagong: One of the 5 GPS units received from OSI Foundation was given to Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) to start OSM there. A workshop on mapping was conducted there by Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat and Shubrami Moutushy.Two Lecturers of CUET, Tauhidul Alam and Jobaida Akhtar are leading the students there. Sabbir Ahmad Majumder, Md. Kamrujjaman Akon and Imam Mohammad Bokhary are actively involved in mapping the places around Chittagong.
Awards
- Location-Based Services: A project done by two sophomore BUET students, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat and Shubrami Moutushy, won the 1st prize at Inter-University Software Project Show held at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET). They developed an Android application that can help a blind people to find the destination.
Publications
- A paper on 'OpenStreetMap for the Disaster Management in Bangladesh' has been accepted in 2011 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS2011). Authors of that paper are Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sufian Latif, Md. Monjurul Islam Khan, K.M. Rakibul Islam. It is a great achievement for Open Street Map in Bangladesh.
- Paper on 'Location Based Information System Using OpenStreetMap' has been accepted in International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE-2011). Authors of that paper are Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy, Hasan Shahid Ferdous and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. It is another bigger success of OpenStreetMap in Bangladesh.
- Paper on 'Location Based Information System Using OpenStreetMap' has been accepted in IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCORED-2011). Authors of that paper are Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Shubrami Moutushy, Hasan Shahid Ferdous and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. The best achievement of application side of OSM in Bangladesh with an android app.
Mapping Party
February 21, 2011: The first Mapping Party of OSM BD took place at a small kindergarten school at Dhanmondi, Dhaka. This date was particularly memorable as this was the International Mother Tongue Day. Almost 30 people attended this party. There were three presentations. At first, Sohaila Ridwan, the lead of CommunityAction, A volunteer group, made her speech on leadership. Then Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed explained the necessity of OSM in his presentation. Finally K. M. Rakibul Islam, an undergraduate student of CSE, BUET showed how to make maps to the audience.
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| When: | every Friday |
| Where: | Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (New Academic Building, CSE Wing) (map) |
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Cities
Imagery and data sources
Yahoo hires imagery
Bing hires imagery
Hires Bing coverage appears in green in this interactive map (zoom in at least at level 14 to trigger new rendering).
- Dhaka area coverage (same as Yahoo, zoom level 17, Jan 2001 - Apr 2005)
- Dhaka smaller area coverage (zoom level 18, Oct 2006 - Apr 2010)
- Chittagong (same as Yahoo, zoom level 17, Nov 2000 - Nov 2004)
- Chittagong (zoom level 18, Oct 2006 - Apr 2010)
- Khulna (zoom level 18, Oct 2006 - Apr 2010)
- Rajshahi area
- Pabna and Bogra area
OrbView-3 hires imagery
144 OrbView-3 satellite images of Bangladesh, made freely available by USGS, with less than 10% cloud cover, terrain corrected (L1Gst), with enhanced contrast, are available for use as background in OSM editors.
Use with Potlatch : For Potlatch 2, in menu "Background / Edit / Add", give a name (for example "Bangladesh - OrbView-3"), and copy the following URL:
http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/bangladesh/$z/$x/$y
(you can also uncheck "Dim").
For Potlatch 1, open "Options (choose background map)" dialog window, and copy-paste the following URL in "Custom":
http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/bangladesh/!/!/!
(you can also uncheck "Dim background").
Use with JOSM :
To make the image available in the Imagery menu in JOSM, go to Modify / Preferences / WMS - TMS tab / +, give a name (for example "Bangladesh - OrbView-3"), and copy-paste the following URL in "Web address" (bottom):
tms[19]:http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/bangladesh/{zoom}/{x}/{y}
Use source=OrbView-3, USGS, 2003-2007.
Spot imagery
Astrium GEO-Information Services (formerly Spot Image) makes available SPOT 5 satellite imagery of Comilla area and authorizes its use to OpenStreetMap contributors as a WMS service provided that each contributor accept the following licence : http://www.youmapps.org/licenses/EULA-OSM-en.html . This is briefly what is required by the licence :
- The SPOT imagery is provided to you, the final user, only to extract information that will be stored in the OpenStreetMap database under a CC-by-SA 2.0 and/or OpenDbL licence.
- Please, fill the source tag with source = “Cnes / Spot Image”
- Do not use, download or redistribute the imagery for any other purposes than what is authorized here.
Use of WMS is authorized in JOSM and Merkaartor but not Potlatch.
| Image set | Boundary | Use in JOSM | Use in Potlatch |
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| SPOT 5
Resolution: 2.5m Use the tag: source=Cnes / Spot Image 2006 |
Use the following WMS URL in JOSM :
GetCapability: http://ws.spotimage.com/spotlive/wms/f20fd8b5-05db-411b-9fa7-f04200d7a274? GetMap: wms:http://ws.spotimage.com/spotlive/wms/f20fd8b5-05db-411b-9fa7-f04200d7a274?FORMAT=image/jpeg&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&Layers=spotlive& |
Not allowed |
