Training on Open Street Map
The Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Jahangirnagar University has conducted a daylong training workshop on Open Street Map (OSM) at the university campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11th November 2017. Open Street Map is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. IT emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date. It is also diverse, passionate, and growing every day. Enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers. The main aim OSM is to humanitarians mapping in disaster-affected areas. It is open data source; anyone can use it freely for any purpose as long as you credit OSM and its contributors. Participants were from different Departments of Jahangirnagar University. They learned how to generate OSM data and its uses from this training. The training was conducted by Ahsanul Hoque, Vice-President, OSM foundation.
