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Openstreetmap Multan Progress

By shoaib | Published: 2009/10/29
Last few years have been difficult for Pakistani citizens. However the ordinary citizen is so removed from the geopolitical forces driving the conflict in Pakistan that it is hard to imagine how an ordinary citizen may be able to contribute to resolving the conflict. In these circumstanses I was delighted to see the progress that [...]
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Pakistan at the State of the Map, Amsterdam

By shoaib | Published: 2009/07/10
OSM in Pakistan hasn’t been very active in the past. However the future is looking bright. This year during the state of the map in Amsterdam you will run into a university professor – but don’t let the absent minded-professor-look fool you. This is a man on a mission – as a professor at [...]
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one GPS and fourty-something bikes

By shoaib | Published: 2008/09/06
Kashif Rasul last year decided to buy himself one of those GeoChron GPS from SparkFun (they are really cool: field hardended and can take SD cards check it here) … after doing some mapping around Europe and Malaysia he decided to use it to initiate the first openstreetmap mapping party in Multan (which incidentally is [...]
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Goodbye National Mapping, G’day Google!

By shoaib | Published: 2008/06/25
Google MapMaker is out. There are several geowiki projects, but when someone like google decides to have a go at the problem you have to take notice. First thing to note is that the MapMaker is open for a limited set of countries, one of which I have blogged about earlier. So lets see what [...]
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