[Fsf-friends] Mumbai Free Map

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

Please see the latest demo of the Mumbai Free Map on 
http://freemap.crit.org.in

This now contains detailed vector layers for roads, railways, buildings 
and plots, projected onto a satellite composite image of the city. The 
data has been sourced from existing municipal development plans, 
surveys, and maps, which we have scanned, traced and stitched together 
with our archive of project materials at CRIT.

This project has been developed using completely free and open source 
software (Map Server, GRASS, QGIS) and copyleft and public geographic 
data.

The project web page is on http://www.crit.org.in/projects/gis and we 
welcome comments and feedback on it as we begin developing an interface 
by which to annotate the maps and develop this as an open source and 
interactive archive and community information infrastructure.

Regards,


S.K.
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Shekhar Krishnan
CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust)
B-43, Shravasti
Goregaon-Malad Link Road
Malad (West), Mumbai 400064
India

http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar