10th OSM Delhi Mapping Meetup
Delhi, India
V3S Mall
The 10th OpenStreetMap Delhi mapping party is taking place this Sunday. We'll avoid the humid weather by mapping in the comfort of an air-conditioned mall.
We'll learn how to use Vespucci for adding data indoors. Thus, an Android smartphone is highly recommended, although we can still accommodate iOS users.
You don't need any experience with OSM or maps to participate, so bring all your friends along!
🗓️ Date - Sunday, 21st of July
🕙 Time - 3:30 PM to 6 PM
🗺️ Location - V3S Mall, Nirman Vihar Metro Station (Blue Line)
What is OpenStreetMap?
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world made by people like you, which anybody can use, share, and edit. You can think of it as the Wikipedia of maps.
It is used by numerous websites, organizations, companies (e.g. Wikipedia, Ola Maps, redBus, Doctors Without Borders, Pokemon Go, Zomato, Uber, Amazon), and free software (e.g. Organic Maps and OsmAnd).
Contributing to OpenStreetMap is fun. You get to explore the world, find interesting places, and document them for yourself and others. You improve a public resource which helps everyone and is not controlled by any one company.
You can learn more about OSM on these pages -
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
What will we be doing?
- Meet and greet
- Teaching - new participants are taught how to use and edit OSM on their phones; existing mappers may be introduced to new apps and techniques
- Everyone is split into teams, and each team is assigned an area to map
- The teams disperse, and map their assigned areas for an hour
- Regroup; review the changes on the OSM website
Who are you?
We are passionate and experienced OpenStreetMap contributors who improve it for fun in our free time. Many of us are also free software and privacy activists.
Useful equipment to bring along
- a functioning smartphone (recommended; Android strongly preferred)
- a power bank (optional)
- a charging cable (optional)
- drinking water
How do I join?
Participants should write to us over email or over XMPP with -
- their name, and
- their phone number [1]
Past participants can omit the name and phone number.
[1] We use phone numbers strictly for event coordination and for inviting you to future events. You can omit the phone number, but you risk not getting information in time.