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experience of the event "gillMapping"

The event "gillMapping" which was organized by Civil Department of guru nanak dev engineering college and Linux User Group(LUG), Ludhiana on 22 nov, 09.
well, the event started at 9:00am in the morning with the opening function in consultancy hall in GNE College, Ludhiana.
various dignitaries were present , many speeches were delivered on GPS Technology, OpenStreetMap and josm software.
I also present my views on the above mention software and also discuss the event with the present people.
after that we have refreshments from college. then we were brief about the event, usage and working of the gps. after that we move to gill village there we notify the various locations,places of interest, streets,roads and many other locations of gill village.
finally we came back to college and using josm software we edit the data and design the final map and uploaded on the openstreetmap.org.
following steps are taken for uploading the map.
1) receive the data from gps on pc by data cable.
2) grim software is needed for saving the gps file in .gpx format.
3) finally open the josm software open the .gpx file in josm then download the map from openstreet. then make amendments in the map and finally upload on the openstreetmap.
hence with the above mention steps your map will be uploaded on the INTERNET.

List of Members

NAME                  CLASS  GROUP
Daljeet Singh Pathania     D3 IT   L.U.G
Jagdeep Singh Malhi        D3IT   L.U.G
Aditi Arora                D2CSE   L.U.G
Akashdeep singh            D4 CE   A.C.E
Aman Shegal                D4 CE   A.C.E
Amanpreet Singh            D2CSE   L.U.G
Amrinder Singh             D2IT   L.U.G
Ankur Chauhan              D2ECE   L.U.G
Anurag Chaudry             D2CSE   L.U.G
biplamdeep singh           A.C.E
Chandeep Singh             D2CSE   L.U.G
Davinder Kumar             D2CSE   L.U.G
Gurinder Singh             D3 IT 
Guriqbal Singh             D2CSE   L.U.G
Gurjyot Singh              D2CSE   L.U.G
Hargurdeep singh           A.C.E
Harkaran singh             D2 CE   A.C.E
HarmanpreetSingh           D1ECE   L.U.G
Ismitpal singh             D3CE   A.V.S
Jaswinder singh            D4 CE   A.C.E
Mandeep Sngh               D3IT 
Mokshan abrol              D4 CE   A.C.E
Parveen Kumar              D2IT   L.U.G
Pranavanand                D2CSE   L.U.G
Priyanka Sharma            D2IT   L.U.G
Sandeep                    D2PE   L.U.G
Shaina                     D2CSE   L.U.G
Simarjeet singh            D4 CE   A.C.E
Sumit                      D2ECE   L.U.G
Tanpreet singh             D4 CE   A.C.E
Vikas                      D2CSE   L.U.G
Preeti Jaiin               D4CE   A.C.E
Gurmeher Singh             D2CE 

the parposal of the event "gillmapping"

following is the proposal for the event "gillMapping" which was scheduled on 22nd nov,09.
I was assigned as a project leader for this event . the more detail and experience will be shortly added.


The Department of civil engineering,Guru Nank Dev engineering college,ludhiana is organinsing an event of “gillmapping” on 22/11/2009(Sunday) at 9:00 A.M. For preparing digital map of gill village with the help of nss unit,association of civil engineers &linux user group with following objectives.

(a)To help Govt./NGos for their social welfare schemes. (b)To help our community such as traffic police,cabs etc in track locating. (c)To help physically challenged people(blind) navigate on their own (d)To help grow industrial business in the area of “digital mapping” and to provide scope of placements for students.

We plan to start this project from gill village and thereafter the whole city will be covered. An inaugral function is being planned at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College on 22/11/09 at 9:00A.M. To mark the start of this project and make everyone aware of it.

Open Street Maps

Open Free maps are Free editable maps.these are made with the help of GPS by anyone at anytime. These maps allows us to view,edit and use geographical data in the callobrative way from anywhere on the globe. Like in some areas, We have some buildings and street being built all the time and with the help of OSM we can always locate this location of sbeakers on the ground and can get up-to-date data.

More important thing is that information is free. It will be owned by the community- not by any big corporate which means it can be accesed by anyone,anytime and anywhere nad can also edit it accordingly. Open street map(OSM) maps are more accurate then anything else on the market in many parts of world depending upon awareness nad participation of community. By using OSM we will come up with new applications and winning innovations around the information we recorded.

Maps prepared by OSM have already Started In US and is new in India. These maps


(a)Help to Grow the industrial business in the area of digital mapping and provided the scope of placements of the students in the same area. (b)Help as track locator to the community such as Traffic Police,Cabs etc. (c)Help as a navigator for the physically challenged people(Blind).

Department of civil engineering at GNDEC Ludhiana is going to prepare such maps. Initially we are starting from Gill Village and Our target is to Prepare maps of ludhiana city. All the data collected by this will be given away free for others to use.

For collecting the data of Gill Village our Students will carry GPS to different part of gill village nad will record the information and then will upload and then this will be provided to the community for the use.

We can get further information regarding open street maps from below link http://news.bbc.co.uk/2hi/technology/8305924.stm http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki

Faculty In charge:-

Er. Rajinder Ghai, Lecturer, Civil Engineering Department, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana(Pb) India

Er. Harkamaljeet Singh Gill, Lecturer, Civil Engineering Department, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana(Pb) India

Chairman : - Prof.(Dr.) H.S. Rai HOD,Department of Civil Engineering Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana(Pb) India



upcoming events:- uploading the list of the Mapping Team

posted by:-

Daljeet Singh Pathania

photos of linux events in genesis

Linux user group(LUG) events in College Genesis

In 20,Nov 2009 our college genesis is begin so Linux User Group (LUG ) conduct two events Workshop on FOSS & LINUX QUIZ . First off all our workshop is begin at 9.00am and Dr. H.S.Rai give Presentation on FOSS .

Introduction to FOSS:- FOSS is an open source software that is being used n linux operating system . A seminar on FOSS was held ,that was presented by Dr. Hardeep Singh Rai. He was presenting many effective information on open source software and systems specially on foss. According to them with the help of these open source softwares and system we can developed a new system that is according to our requirements and needs. Through , the help of the open source softwares we can develop our country in many assepts of information technology.

There was a open discussion on FOSS . Dr.Hardeep Singh Rai and Ajay Shiv Sharma was the in discussion . They were presented their views about these concepts that how to use these open source systems and modify them according to our needs. Also there was a questioner on FOSS and linux operating system. In this module there is question about open source system and the audience presented there was trying to answer these questions and also there was gift on behalf of these questions. We gain knowledge about these open source system a lot.

WORKSHOP ON DRUPAL:- Then, after the seminar on foss ,a workshop on drupal will conducted . In this workshop we work on Drupal (open soure) .Our lecturer Ajay Shiv Sharma was giving a lecture on this that how we work on drupal. He also giving information about DRUPAL which is also an open source software and we make a wonderful website by using drupal. In this module we install Drupal in our machines with some commands that are related to it .We follow the instructions of our lecturer and install it in our machines. Through drupal we develop websites which is very effective and it includes all the content that a website can have. We can learn how to make websites through there systems. There was group of some students that work according to the instructions of lecturer that can handle all this work .

Linux quiz:- At the end of this module of workshop, a quiz on linux and FOSS can de presented . In this quiz questions wiil be asked from the student who attend this whole module of linux. Many of students can participate in this quiz. Special prizes will be given to those students who win this quiz and also those students who work well in work shop any this community .


At end we are deeply thankful to our lecturers Ajay Shiv Sharma and Dr. Hardeep Singh Rai . With the help our teacher we succeeded in our goal of informing students about the open source system.

OSS CAMP in chandigarh

i have attended the oss camp in chandigarh on 24-oct-09, where oss stand for the open source services . It was Unconference on Open Source. this camp was basically promotion of the open source, and various products available in open service.
i have also given presentation on the linux operating system and also introduction LINUX USER GROUP (LUG) .

you can check it out link for oss community :-
http://osscamp.in