Today I am completing 3 years in SatSure! I still remember the first day Karthik Ravidhra opened the door of a coworking space on MG Road and welcomed me to the family. Praveen Kumar, with his trademark smile, shook hands with me and showed me my seat. …

In last June (2021), there rose a mysterious island in Kochi. No No No..this is not a fantasy story I am going to narrate, the artefact island made in Google maps later known as “Payarumani Island” is what I was mentioning. I wrote a blog post on it — The…

Location intelligence is the new buzzword in the industry. What gave new intelligence to location science? What triggered the recent boom of new startups around various applications of location services? A deep dive into these questions reveal the fuel behind these changes as two things: the advancement in smartphone technology…

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…