Moved!
This project is very much alive and has moved to: http://pkmaps.freeforums.org
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December 28, 2008
July 03, 2006
Close
I called up the WorldCall center a couple of days ago to have the guy come and fix the cable TV line at our place. The return call I got today to ask for directions was a little surprising though.
WorldCall already has a complete addressing and routing geodatabase of Karachi. Why in the world would they ask for directions? Besides, I could tell from the way the lady who called me was talking on the phone that she already had some sort of map in front of her, 'cause she knew all the names of the adjacent streets, that the place next to ours was empty and that behind our place was a small so-called college. Those guys have plotted every bit of pole and lining from their satellite photography. Boy, do I envy them!
But, what the heck, they are a public limited company and got all the resources they need. I just need to work on mine.
WorldCall already has a complete addressing and routing geodatabase of Karachi. Why in the world would they ask for directions? Besides, I could tell from the way the lady who called me was talking on the phone that she already had some sort of map in front of her, 'cause she knew all the names of the adjacent streets, that the place next to ours was empty and that behind our place was a small so-called college. Those guys have plotted every bit of pole and lining from their satellite photography. Boy, do I envy them!
But, what the heck, they are a public limited company and got all the resources they need. I just need to work on mine.
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July 02, 2006
Predicament
Finally, I get over with the semester. Phew!
But as one problem gets solved, another one comes up. Karachi's electric power supply is a mess. We are lucky to have electricty for the greater part of the day, but the way in which it comes and goes is so irritating, one can't get anything done at all. Add to that the frustration of getting 120 volts instead of 220, that not only disrupts every electrical equipment, but damages them in the process. Been going on for more than a month now and there's no stoppage in sight.
I almost lost a brand new hard drive to that dwindling electric supply and there's no guarantee I wouldn't lose anything else in the future. But such is life in Karachi these days.
Anyway, the project definitely needs a separate website and a lot more attention. Yet finances just keep getting in the way. I'll have to see what I can do. desimaniac: I shall let you know if I need that hosting. Thanks!
I need to fix the map's georeferencing now. Should be done as soon as there's a stable power supply. It lasted long enough for me to be able to make this post and I should consider myself lucky.
But as one problem gets solved, another one comes up. Karachi's electric power supply is a mess. We are lucky to have electricty for the greater part of the day, but the way in which it comes and goes is so irritating, one can't get anything done at all. Add to that the frustration of getting 120 volts instead of 220, that not only disrupts every electrical equipment, but damages them in the process. Been going on for more than a month now and there's no stoppage in sight.
I almost lost a brand new hard drive to that dwindling electric supply and there's no guarantee I wouldn't lose anything else in the future. But such is life in Karachi these days.
Anyway, the project definitely needs a separate website and a lot more attention. Yet finances just keep getting in the way. I'll have to see what I can do. desimaniac: I shall let you know if I need that hosting. Thanks!
I need to fix the map's georeferencing now. Should be done as soon as there's a stable power supply. It lasted long enough for me to be able to make this post and I should consider myself lucky.
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June 11, 2006
GEupdate
Google made a HUGE update to its satellite imagery database this weekend. Other than the previously covered cities of Karachi and Islamabad, we now have even a larger area around Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Multan, Sialkot, and so many other major and minor areas of Pakistan. The strips of hi-res data are scattered all over and the names are too many to list.
Have a look. Download and run Google Earth from here.
Have a look. Download and run Google Earth from here.
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May 22, 2006
Pegged
This follows the discussion at the Karachi MetBlog.
Thanks to Khurram for lending me his BT GPS. Have been taking GPS coordinates on and off these past few days as I got the chance. A few turned out to be useless, though. The GPS (as I later discovered) needed some seconds to get settled on the EXACT coordinates for that location while I noted them down a tad earlier.
Tests, quizes, assignments galore, as usual. 5 weeks of more crazy cramming up to do.
Meanwhile I have been preparing some mapping reading material I would want to go through after the semester to make sure I get the roads editing and navigation stuff going smoothly. Will inshAllah get to that soon as well.
Thanks to Khurram for lending me his BT GPS. Have been taking GPS coordinates on and off these past few days as I got the chance. A few turned out to be useless, though. The GPS (as I later discovered) needed some seconds to get settled on the EXACT coordinates for that location while I noted them down a tad earlier.
Tests, quizes, assignments galore, as usual. 5 weeks of more crazy cramming up to do.
Meanwhile I have been preparing some mapping reading material I would want to go through after the semester to make sure I get the roads editing and navigation stuff going smoothly. Will inshAllah get to that soon as well.
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