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Mapping my home town : Gobichettipalayam

Posted by Fa7C0N on 30 November 2016 in English. Last updated on 1 December 2016.

Gobichettipalayam is the second largest urban city in Erode district, Tamilnadu, India. It is known for the green rice fields, because of that many Tamil movies were shot here. It is in human nature to start any task from a place you already know, since I was born and brought up in this town I started my mapping here.

Quality of map before mapping:

Alt most of the roads were traced

When I started mapping most of the roads in Northern part of my town was already mapped, but some roads are named wrong. In case of POIs, there is little to no information on the map and most of the schools, Banks, Petrol pumps, community centres were not mapped. So I planned to proceed by matching the road density in the southern part of my town to the northern part and then concentrate on adding the POIs.

Things I mapped:

  1. I started by adding major and minor roads in the southern part of my town with the help of OpenStreetMap wiki for tags while correcting some road names in the northern part.

  2. Then I mapped POIs like Banks, ATMs, Schools, community centers, government offices, petrol pumps, Department stores etc., that I am sure of its location.

  3. After this I moved on to adding addition informations like bridges, bus stops and farmlands.

Quality of map after mapping:

Quality of map after mapping

Future plans:

  1. Adding road names.

  2. Map the missing buildings along with addresses.

  3. Add all the missing POIs.

Location: Gobichettipalaiyam, Gobichettipalayam, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, 638452, India

Discussion

Comment from SimonPoole on 30 November 2016 at 07:41

Great! You show the value of somebody surveying and mapping on the ground that knows the place.

BTW I noticed that this road nearby http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/63063074#map=16/11.4342/77.4187&layers=D has a rather weird “ref” value, that should probably be replaced with the proper value or removed.

Comment from PlaneMad on 30 November 2016 at 07:51

This is looking so good! I had added some basic details a year ago when attending a wedding at the Bhuvana Hall. Such beautiful countryside!

Comment from Jake Smarter on 30 November 2016 at 12:47

Looks great, phenomenal job! Please continue mapping! Please also try engaging other local people in your effort. I am wishing you all the best and good luck!

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