New Regulation: Educational Institute Categories

[Arman Khossain]

Dear mappers,

Assalamu Alaikum.

Mapping Bangladesh has a new addition titled Educational Institute Category Regulation to their regulations section. The document displays the preferred categories we have decided to use when mapping educational institutes on Google Map Maker from local point of view in Bangladesh. Please find the new document here, or at http://bit.ly/MB_Education

Thank you.

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GMM Educational Institute Category Regulation

[Abdullah Al Aman]

Thank you for the regulation.
In row 19, any Aliya Madrasa is placed under College. I think it sould be Alim instead of Aliya.
Because Aliya is an education system including Primary (ibtidayee), secondary (Dakhil), higher secondary (alim) and graduate level (Fazil and Kamil). Note that an Aliya madrasa giving Fazil degree is often called a senior madrasa. These should be reflected in the GMM regulation.

In row 34, any general Madrasa is placed under primary category of religious school. This is confusing, because among Aliya, Qaomi and Hifz madrasas, which is a general madrasa?

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[Arman Khossain]

Dear Br. Aman,

Thank you for your observation.

To make it easy for mappers to understand the usage of categories with the respective institutes, we tried to look at the similarity in naming of the features and then categorize them on the basis of functionality, so that mappers can use a proper category judging by how a feature is named. I am sure that there are Madrasahs that go by the name "Aliya Madrasah" in which case we'll be using the category "College" based on its functionality as also rightly mentioned by you, but I didn't yet come across a Madrasah being named an Alim Madrasah. If you're sure there are Madrasahs named like that, we can include that too for better referencing.

Since Aliya Madrasahs offering Fazil are often called Senior Madrasahs, and I've heard of it as well, we'll be adding it to the document. Thank you for your suggestion.

When a Madrasah doesn't have any hints in its name to better categorize it (e.g. there's no Aliya Madrasah after the name, or Hifzul Quran Madrasah, Qawmi Madrasah etc.) and is simply named, say 'ABC Madrasah', and you don't have enough local knowledge to determine what curriculum of education is taught there or what is the highest level of education there - these would be regarded as general madrasahs. 

Note that the term 'general madrasah' isn't official, it is simply a term adopted by the community for the regulation to refer to such madrasahs. 

In this context, none of the Aliya, Qawmi and Hifz madrasahs are general madrasahs, because we are able to estimate the kind of education imparted there from their name and hence are able to choose a category accordingly, as reflected in the regulation.

Thank you.

Regards,

Arman Khossain

RER for Bangladesh 2012

Google map maker

[Nefaul Hossain Rafel]

Is there any category like Factory? Embroidery factory, knit factory, woven factory or sweater factory?

[Arman Khossain]

Dear Br. Nefaul,

Yes, for any kind of factory, please find the category "Factory" in Additional/Other categories menu. Primary category for these features should be either Establishment/POI or Grounds/Boundary.

Please be informed that whenever you aren't able to find a suitable category for your edit (like Factory) in Primary Category field, use the Additional/Other field to specify the category of the feature in context, Insha Allah.

Thank you.

Regards,

Arman Khossain

RER for Bangladesh 2012

Google map maker