Mapping, Massacre and Mo:Mos
This Saturday (December 22), we had a mapping party to map Basantapur Durbar Square – one of the thirteen UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Nepal. The aim was to map the temples and other cultural...
View ArticleMaiden Mapper’s OSM Experience
-Helina Shrestha Research shows that only a small number of female mappers are actively contributing to the global OSM community (See the diagram). Clearly, open Street Mapping is male dominated field,...
View ArticleGirls @ work
-Samjhana Shrestha A fascinating late morning started when a team of M.Sc. in Disaster Risk Management (MSDRiM) collaborated with a team of OpenDRI Nepal in Pulchowk Campus premises for Open Street...
View ArticleOpen Data Day Nepal 2013
On Saturday Feb 23rd, OpenDRI Nepal is co-organizing Nepal’s inaugural Open Data Day at the Local Development Training Center in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur from 11am to 5pm. Open Data Day is a gathering of...
View ArticleA look into Open Data Day Nepal 2013
-Helina Different people, different ideas- and ideas when converged open doors to new possibilities. February 23rd brought along itself a flow of excitements and left behind mass inspirations at the...
View ArticleSchEMS (School of Environmental Science and Management), Mapping Party and an...
-Sazal Sthapit “So for whom is the OpenStreetMap useful for and does it have a specific set of users?” asked one of the mapping party attendees. The question was valid and the answer was...
View ArticleBrown Bag Talk at ICIMOD
On March 20, 2013, Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) Nepal was invited for a brown bag talk at International Center for Integrated Mountaineering Development (ICIMOD). About 40 participants...
View ArticleGirls’ Mapping Party!
-Laxmi Thapa “… That polished nail finger pressing the GPS button definitely changes the way society perceives women.” : Mahesh Thapa, Kathmandu University. These were the words from a comment that hit...
View ArticleCrossing Boundaries by Tracing Buildings: Mapping Kathmandu from New York City
-Alyssa Wright Throughout the day you could hear the simple question – ‘Is that a building?’ — followed by conversations about shadows, and people, and the construction of a city that seemed so far...
View ArticleOSM Mapathon at Kathmandu University
-Poshan Niraula and Biplov Bhandari, Kathmandu University Kathmandu University Geomatics Engineering Society (GES), in association with Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) Nepal organized OSM...
View ArticleA Clinic, two Doctors and ahmm, two mappers: a newbie learning of the Nepali...
Prasham Ojha, BosferLabs twitter: @prashamojha A barrage of analogies to better understand the philosophy and principles of the OSM movement, one of which was, Wikipedia and its sharing knowledge model...
View ArticleDevelopers’ Meet Up focuses on OpenStreetMap in Kathmandu
With the growing open source movement around the world, Nepal Open Source communities strive to create a strong foundation for tech culture in Nepal. Open Source Communities in Nepal have been...
View ArticleRotaract Club Baneshwor gets into mapping
-Pratik Gautam “I was supposed to go for a movie with friends, but since the plan got cancelled, I needed a boost up program for my Saturday. I came to know about the mapping party and thought why not?...
View ArticleOpen Data Day 2014
“For data to be open, it should be available, accessible and machine-readable.” Participants at Open Data Day Nepal gathered together to work towards making data open. While participants of Mapathon...
View ArticleOpenDataDay 2014 OSMPatrol: Senior Mappers Enhancing OSM data
- Amrit Karmacharya Nepal celebrated Open Data Day for the first time in 2013. On this occasion, Kathmandu Living Labs had organized mapathon to train new mappers. After a year, the OSM community in...
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