Collaborative mapping of local body wards of Kerala under way
The Hindu
OSM-Kerala embarks on GIS mapping of 21,000 wards with help from openly available images and data
A few months ago when the Kochi Corporation brought out a crude map for the visualisation of the pandemic-related restrictions, volunteers of OpenStreetMap (OSM) Kerala, associated with the global collaborative project of creating a free and editable world map, reached out and helped the authorities to fine tune it. Though the Corporation wanted to prolong the association beyond the immediate need, lack of access to inter-departmental geospatial data put paid to the idea.
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