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Terrain Visualization of India using SRTM and Openstreetmap data 2 Aug 2013 | 02:59 am
Made this in QGIS using data from NASA’s SRTM and Openstreetmap. I got inspired by a terrain visualization I saw while browsing /r/MapPorn on reddit. Data layers used: SRTM: 1km dem with a custom co...
Bangalore to Mumbai, 18 hours by bus and better than expected 29 Apr 2013 | 10:34 pm
If you are traveling between Bangalore and Mumbai, you should consider the bus a serious alternative to the train. Since my SL class ticket on the Kurla express got charted as RAC, I figured I might a...
Found it! my scholarship to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Amsterdam 25 Apr 2013 | 03:19 pm
I was really hoping to attend this year’s annual Wikimedia Hackathon, especially with all the growing interest in Wikidata and Openstreetmap, the two projects that has currently caught my fancy. I hav...
Chennai Urban Area Landuse Map 24 Apr 2013 | 12:53 am
One of the artifacts of my experiments with Tilemill and some data cleaning and reclassification I was doing on the Chennai Openstreetmap data.
Designing a multilingual bus information poster for Mumbai’s bus stops 22 Apr 2013 | 09:33 pm
Draft design of an A3 poster that can be auto generated from data available from http://www.chalobest.in and openstreetmap, allowing users to print and paste it at their bus stops.
ISRO sees utility of openstreetmap data 28 Nov 2011 | 09:44 am
While poking around Bhuvan – India’s hyped google earth competitor by ISRO, the country’s space agency, I happened to stumble upon a new WMS layer feature (link, see top right). Curious, i managed to ...
Lessons from the New Tamil Nadu government text books 29 Sep 2011 | 08:11 am
Woo! Found two of my photographs included in the new Tamil Nadu school geography textbooks. They have been conveniently taken from my uploads to wikipedia (click pic for details). Too bad that the usa...
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“Unless you do something, you wont become better at it” – Me
Enroute to Ladakh 28 May 2010 | 09:40 pm
My travel plan for the summer, from Coorg to Kashmir After dillydallying between the Northeast, Utarranchal+Nepal and Sikkim+Bhutan, i finally decided on Ladakh. It was initially supposed to be just ...
The essential Chennai rail transport map – looking back 8 May 2010 | 03:22 am
I have always been irritated by the transport services in India ever since i started living here from 2005, more because of the information blockage than the poor quality of the service itself. Atleas...
