Google Map Maker MapUp – Pokhara
Posted By: @bhu1st On Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Pokhara being one of the most popular visitor / tourist location of Nepal deserves its geographic information to be digitized and put in Google Maps. Yearly thousands of tourists visit Pokhara. We could guess about the times they tried Google Maps with expectations to get navigation directions. Not only tourists but all Nepalese who live/visit Pokhara will sure like seeing Google Maps of Pokhara improve.
With this use case in mind, GDG Kathmandu organized an one day mapping event called MapUp Pokhara on Dec. 15th 2012. MapUp Pokhara won't have been thought of without extensive support from Sankalpa- "Committed for a Better Society". We are glad to have them as our co-organizers.
Date: December 15th 2012, Saturday (2069/8/30 B.S.), 10AM-5PM
Venue: Hotel Anand, Prithvichowk-9, Pokhara, Nepal
Participation: ~80, Active Mappers, RER, Developers, Students, Graduates
Agendas
We had a very good event in Pokhara. Our initial expected number of participants were ~50, but we ended up having ~80 persons attending Pokhara MapUp. This introduced slight difficulties in our "event management" but overall impression of the event went great.
I personally felt this was first of such gathering in Pokhara (all of the colleges participated, common gathering point: Google Maps, Google tech), participants from Pokhara are expecting more of such events and suggested to conduct such program in all other districts of Nepal. There were few guys travelling to Pokhara from other district just to attend this mapup :) We managed high b/w and more stable internet in Pokhara than in Kathmandu event but due to unexpected increase in participants we have some difficulties. Also, MapUp Pokhara ignited few other discussion: eg. formulating GDG Pokhara, mapups in other districts of Nepal which are near Pokhara.
Overall event excitement was better in Pokhara. Participants were very active throughout the event. Gradually as time went by the event became more engaged and we saw more contributions coming from Pokhara live. If you ever visit Pokhara in future you should thank us for our contributions to Google Maps there :)
Mapping Nepal (नेपाल) Community
Mappers can send review requests to Mapping Nepal Community any time.
Mapping Nepal Community (Google Group)
Mapping Nepal Community G+ community (created after Kathmandu MapUp, join in)
Mapping Nepal Website
Are you mapping ? See it live here:
Real-time Mapping Pulse of Nepal
We'd like to thank all the participants, Google, Sankalpa team, Mapping Nepal Community, World Link & Semicolon Developers for making this event possible.
Check our G+ Pokhara MapUp Event page for more pictures and Pokhara MapUp event discussions.
If you missed these Mapping events in Kathmandu & Pokhara we are so inspired by the acceptance of the event that we'll be working on bringing in series of MapUps in future. Stay updated via our Google Group, GDG Kathmandu Google+ Page or via our GDG Kathmandu G+ Community.
Let's improve our Google Map.
With this use case in mind, GDG Kathmandu organized an one day mapping event called MapUp Pokhara on Dec. 15th 2012. MapUp Pokhara won't have been thought of without extensive support from Sankalpa- "Committed for a Better Society". We are glad to have them as our co-organizers.
Date: December 15th 2012, Saturday (2069/8/30 B.S.), 10AM-5PM
Venue: Hotel Anand, Prithvichowk-9, Pokhara, Nepal
Participation: ~80, Active Mappers, RER, Developers, Students, Graduates
Agendas
- 10AM-10:15AM - Registration/Tea
- 10:15AM-11:00AM- GDG Kathmandu Intro, Sankalpa Intro, Google MapUps Intro
- 11:00AM-12:00PM - Training on Google Map Maker
- 12:00PM-1:30PM - Hands on Contribution to Google Map Maker
- 1:30PM-2:30PM - Refreshment/Snacks
- 2:30PM - 4:00PM - Hands on Contribution to Google Map Maker
- 4:00PM - Tea
- 4:00PM - Onwards - Hands on Contribution to Google Map Maker
- 5:00PM - Wrap-up & Swags Giveaway
We had a very good event in Pokhara. Our initial expected number of participants were ~50, but we ended up having ~80 persons attending Pokhara MapUp. This introduced slight difficulties in our "event management" but overall impression of the event went great.
I personally felt this was first of such gathering in Pokhara (all of the colleges participated, common gathering point: Google Maps, Google tech), participants from Pokhara are expecting more of such events and suggested to conduct such program in all other districts of Nepal. There were few guys travelling to Pokhara from other district just to attend this mapup :) We managed high b/w and more stable internet in Pokhara than in Kathmandu event but due to unexpected increase in participants we have some difficulties. Also, MapUp Pokhara ignited few other discussion: eg. formulating GDG Pokhara, mapups in other districts of Nepal which are near Pokhara.
Overall event excitement was better in Pokhara. Participants were very active throughout the event. Gradually as time went by the event became more engaged and we saw more contributions coming from Pokhara live. If you ever visit Pokhara in future you should thank us for our contributions to Google Maps there :)
Mapping Nepal (नेपाल) Community
Mappers can send review requests to Mapping Nepal Community any time.
Mapping Nepal Community (Google Group)
Mapping Nepal Community G+ community (created after Kathmandu MapUp, join in)
Mapping Nepal Website
Are you mapping ? See it live here:
Real-time Mapping Pulse of Nepal
We'd like to thank all the participants, Google, Sankalpa team, Mapping Nepal Community, World Link & Semicolon Developers for making this event possible.
Check our G+ Pokhara MapUp Event page for more pictures and Pokhara MapUp event discussions.
If you missed these Mapping events in Kathmandu & Pokhara we are so inspired by the acceptance of the event that we'll be working on bringing in series of MapUps in future. Stay updated via our Google Group, GDG Kathmandu Google+ Page or via our GDG Kathmandu G+ Community.
Let's improve our Google Map.