Bangalore Mappers

I believe there is quite a bit of this going on (not necessarily all in Bangalore). Have you found the culprit and told him / her?

I had commented on the changeset alongwith the object which the user has deleted but there was no response.
On a similar note, more than a million building=* keys have been added since 14 May and is now the most used key in India OSM.! Also more than 97% of building keys take the default value, yes. Again this was only 87% few weeks back.

There have been a large number of new editors who started recently. All are working in a similar manner, most concentrating on the same item, and working often to working hours. It would be reasonable to suspect that they could be being paid or getting some other inducement. There is presumably no OSM rule about paid editors, as long as they contribute under the license like everyone else, and this is reasonable. But certainly they should be expected to respond to communication, like any other contributor and even more in their case since in some way or other they would be representing their employer.

Assuming that these are paid editors, then stating that they are being paid, and who by, should perhaps be made obligatory. If they are working for other reasons in a group then this should be publicised so that the group can be contacted in case of continuing problems.

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Right, it’ll be great if there’s someone representing them, perhaps on a wiki or somewhere else in their OSM user profile. It makes easy for any OSM contributor to communicate with that group.

Indigomc: +1

Those mappers edit buildings quite exact but they don’t know the functionality of multipolygons.

Isn’t there an initiative of mapbox to engage paid mappers?

We are speaking here of the following mappers (the list may be uncomplete) :
Premkumar, saikumar, jasvinderkaur , praveeng, himalay, vamshiN, harisha, anthony1, sdivya, akhilsai, harishk, harishvarma, bindhu, Apreethi, vamshikrishna, thrinath, sampath reddy, hareesh11, masthanvali, sravann, kranthikumar, rajashaker, himabindhu, maheshrkm, Nikhil04, pvprasad, shiva05, Srikanth07, anushap, kushwanth, samuelmj, Rahuldhanraj, venkatkotha, shekarn, subhashini, Narsimulu, vraju, shalinins, sathishshetty, Tinkle, rajureddyvudem, pallavi1, himabindhu, Ashok09, Navaneetha, vikramsingh, saikumard

Please give informations about your mapping activities!!!

This thread has been read more 37 000 times. Isn’t there anybody who has contact to these mappers???

Planemad : Are they working for Mapbox?

The 37000+ reads of this thread seems really high, even if it was of great interest to all editors. It was very recently, when the traffic count went up suddenly and then stopped. It may be something automated, but then it raises the question of why this thread became of such interest recently.

I think this subject, i.e. mass editing which is possibly paid, is worth another dedicated thread. It would be as well if the responsible party started it.

Now the most viewed thread in users: India! Its worth having another dedicated thread.

How would you tag a wedding hall… A kalyana mantapa??

amenity = community_centre?

or do we just suggest a new tag?

Nope, this was contributed by Zip.pr based out of Hyderabad. More details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Zippr

Banneghatta National PArk-

Has anyone here been to Bannerghatta recently? I havent been there since I was in school. I dont remember anything - The existing OSM data there is pretty unusable to say the least. We should fix it

Community mapping party in celebration of osmgeoweek -

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Events/Bengaluru_Mapping_Party_3_-_osmgeoweek

Found detailed maps(pages 291-296) in their Approved Master Plan document - http://bannerghattabiologicalpark.org/pdf/Approved-Master-Plan.pdf
These maps can be one of the sources/references along with ground data.

I’ve been working on adding relations for BMTC bus routes using data from:
mybmtc website: https://www.mybmtc.com
BMTC android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bmtc.mybmtc&hl=en.
The android app allows you to track the location of buses and displays a track of the route it took.

A few routes I have added so far:
252F: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6856311
74: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6776481
78A: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6776395
AS-1: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6781293
K-2: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6779593
K-4: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6817995

If anyone wants me to add a specific route or to work on routes for a specific area, I would be happy to do so.

Anyone did a test run on the new airport road? If any of you could map it based on real world data, it would be great.

If you all are doing some mapping at Bangalore, I can lend a hand by arm chairing from Dharwad.

We now have an OSM Bengaluru group on Telegram/Matrix (bridged to each other). Future mapping party announcements and updates will be posted on there. Everyone is welcome to join:

Telegram: Telegram: Contact @OSM_BLR
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#OSM_BLR:matrix.org

OSM Bengaluru’s next mapping party is happening next week, in JP Nagar

:spiral_calendar: Date: 1st November 2023 (Wednesday)
:clock8: Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
:pushpin: Meeting Point: Sarakki Pitch (geo:12.90917,77.58139)

RSVP is open on the OSM Calendar: OSM Bengaluru Mapping Party | OpenStreetMap Calendar

OSM Bengaluru’s next mapping party is happening next week, in HSR Layout

:spiral_calendar: Date: 20th January 2024 (Saturday)
:clock8: Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
:pushpin: Meeting Point: Agara Lake (towards the Agara Flyover side) (geo:12.92396,77.64591)

RSVP is open on the OSM Calendar: OSM Bengaluru Mapping Party | OpenStreetMap Calendar

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OSM Bengaluru’s next mapping party is happening next week, in Vasanth Nagar

:spiral_calendar: Date: 24th February 2024 (Saturday)
:clock8: Time: 8:30 AM - 12 PM, followed by brunch at noon
:pushpin: Meeting Point: Mount Carmel College Grounds, Millers Road (geo:12.994,77.595)

RSVP is open on the OSM Calendar: OSM Bengaluru Mapping Party | OpenStreetMap Calendar

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