Mapping efforts in an unsurveyed land

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by stultus • 11 years ago

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tempodox• 11 years ago

I am very impressed by the photos of the landscape. India is rich in having flora & fauna like that and India is rich in having a sentence like the one mentioned in the introduction in its Constitution. I do hope India will be able to hold on to all of these riches while modernising.

chippy• 11 years ago

Very interesting result. The volunteers, local people make map using free and open source GIS tools, and using OpenStreetMap. But it wasn't just a means to an end as the exercise proved that there were areas not in the official village, and areas in the village were not in the official map. That showed a problem with official records and lead to the government agreeing to redraw the official maps, properly surveyed. I'm not sure if that work has been done or if they don't have the money.

Zaephyr• 11 years ago

An interesting article for both the application of tools ans people to solve a problem and the pictures. I had to go through the article twice because the first time I stopped reading and just enjoyed the photos.

Mapping efforts in an unsurveyed land

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