13 Dec 2005

Mumbai Free Map - Community Geographic Information System (GIS)
Collective Research Initiatives Trust, Mumbai, India
Self-description; "[A]n open-access spatial data infrastructure, and a set of simple tools and applications in localised in Indian languages, for knowledge transfer and participatory urban planning by communities and citizens in the Mumbai Metrpolitan Region."
Supplied note: "The project is a collaboration between CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) [1] and the IndicTrans Project [2] in Mumbai, and the authors of Mapping Hacks [3] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, San Francisco and London, U.K. See the Mumbai Free Map Community GIS home page [4] for more information on the project, which is supported by the ICT R&D Grants Programme of the Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP), UNDP Bangkok [5] - sk."
Site contents: * Community GIS Proposal (March 2005) (PDF) by CRIT; * Community GIS Proposal Addendum (June 2005) (PDF) by CRIT; * Mumbai Map Archive Curated by CRIT [in mid-Dec 2005 the archive consisted of 4 albums containing a total of 10 digital photographs of maps. The maps do not appear to be explicitly geo- and chrono-referenced, or be annotated with any metadata other than a very short title - ed.] ; * Mumbai Free Map Demo by Locative Tech and CRIT;
URL http://www.crit.org.in/projects/gis
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Shekhar Krishnan (shekhar--at--crit.org.in), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30