Re: [FOSS Nepal] Anyone working on OSM in Nepal

[Prabin Gautam]

hi guys,

I have just uploaded the l10n glossary which was used earlier for various localization projects to our website.

Hope it will help in maintaining a sort of uniformity in localization

I have also added link to in wiki for later reference.

http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=FOSS_Nepal_Community#Resources

http://fossnepal.org/docs/l10n/l10nglossary.ods

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Saroj Dhakal <lotusn...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I had begun localization of OSM in Nepali in translatewiki.net . 

If anyone want to help in localization , making it readable and comprehensible to lots of people without knowledge of English ,you people also can help OSM in that regards as well.

Would it be possible to share the knowledge to the broadcast audience scattered in the different corners of the world  ? That would be great if possible .

Thanks for coming up for sharing ! Keep your good work up !

Thanks,

Saroj

On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Nama Budhathoki <nama.bu...@mcgill.ca> wrote:

Hi Prabhas,

Thanks for bringing www.openstreetmap.org (OSM) to this list.

I studied openstreetmap for my PhD dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and will be happy to share my experience. I will be in Kathmandu in the second week of July. Let me know if you are interested to meet face-to-face and discuss more on this.

Nama

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Prabhas Pokharel <prabhas....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey FOSS community,
I am reaching out because I wanted to work on developing OSM (http://openstreetmap.org)[1] further for Nepal, and we have some interest from organizations who own significant GIS data to donate that to OSM.

Once everything becomes a bit clearer, I also want to reach out to the larger group, and see if there is interest to give demos of OSM, how to edit, why OSM is cool, and building FOSS map software using OSM as base layer.
But before then, I wanted to reach out to ask if anyone has already been working on OSM-related activities in Nepal, and can assist us (I have been working with Jwalanta Shrestha and Jitendra Harlalka a bit) with the process of finalizing both the data donation process and the data import. What I am looking for is someone who either already has OSM/GIS experience, or who wants to build some of that knowledge (not hard to do), or just loves maps. Basiclaly, we will create a small team that will then continue the process of finalizing this process of data import, and make OSM a very viable and usable base layer of maps for Nepal.

So, whos in?

[1] - OpenStreetMap, for those who don't know is the freely editable and community maintained map of the world, the Wikipedia of maps, if you would. It is the basis of any FOSS mapping applications, because it has generic licensing terms (did you know that you can't make offline cache of google map images?) and is community maintained like FOSS projects. In fact, many FOSS groups around the world have OSM as one of their primary activities.

Prabhas Pokharel
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Prabin Gautam
M.Sc. Computing Graduate
The University of Northampton
Northamptonshire, UK