A Gateway to all Your Geospatial Datasets of Kerala, an initiative by Open Data Kerala A year back (in 2020 November 1), on the last anniversary of the birth of the state of Kerala (KeralaPiravi), OpenDataKerala (ODK) community (or movement, if that sounds more apt) was also formed. Open Data…

This article was originally published in HOT blog by the same author along with co authors Manoj Karingamadathil and Awantika Pal An overview of OSM Kerala’s inspiring journey and continued efforts to strengthen the use of OSM in Kerala for disaster response and community development. About Kerala Kerala, the southern state of India, is full of diversity. Diversity of people, diversity of communities, and diversity of places. This diversity demands proper maps for the…

This article was originally posted in arkives.in by same author നിങ്ങൾക്ക്മാപ്പ്‍ഇല്ല (Read as Ningalku Map Illa) is the hashtag I started on social media for flagging wrong maps of Kerala. This is the expanded form of my Twitter thread which features wrong maps of Kerala by various organisations. License: This article…

This is a FAQ and their answers, which I received during this period from many people including media in connection with the article, I had written on the ‘Mysterious Island’ in Kochi coast of Kerala. I thought of publishing those questions and answers as many might have the same in…

This blog was originally published on arkives.in by the same author on 20 June 2021. It is on the controversial island formation stories near Kochi coast and the truth behind it. The island is just a visual artefact. License: This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International…

This article was originally published in Geospatial Awareness Hub by same author on 2nd August 2020 For any geospatial analysis data is most important. Like said “Garbage in Garbage out” without relevant and reliable data the results are also unreliable. The lion share of the cost and time of a…

By Arjun Gangadharan, Product Lead — GIS, SatSure Note: This article is written in the Indian context; hence all the boundaries are based on the Indian scenario. Although the procedures are the same in extracting the boundary for other countries, the hierarchy levels and names might differ. Hence it…

By Arjun Gangadharan, Data Analyst — GIS, SatSure Geospatial Data Abstraction Library ( GDAL) is an Open Source library for the raster and vector operations of geospatial datasets. It has been released under MIT permissive license by Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The GDAL library has become inevitable in…