Mapping efforts in an unsurveyed land - An OpenStreetMap experiment at Koorachundu Village Panchayat.

Jaisen Nedumpala(Assistant Secretary, Koorachundu Village Panchayat,

Volunteer, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing)

&Ark Arjun

(Volunteer, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing)

Village Panchayat● Articles 243 to 243O of the Constitution of India.● Local authorities – Quasi judicial powers over their

jurisdiction – Asses and Collect Tax, Cess.● Implementing agency - Developmental projects of it's

own and, of the government.● Role in Environmental protection - KPR Act 3rd

Schedule -Environmental hygiene, awareness, upgradation; Social Forestry.● Biodiversity Management Committee (Biological

Diversity Act - 2002)● Enforcement of building rules, ref. CRZ notification.

OpenStreetMap

● Webmap.● Database containing vector map data.● Freedom

● ODbL – Open Data Commons Open Database License.

● CC-by-SA, Formerly.● Editable as a Wiki.● Repository of GPX tracks.● A community Project.● Steve Coast – July 2004.

Why OpenStreetMap?

● Many of the available maps are not free.● Few of them are free (as beer) but not free (as speech).● Difficulties to get vector data to draw custom maps.● Users can improve OpenStreetMap.● OpenStreetMap can be updated easily.● Commercially available maps may occasionally

contain purposefully added errors.● Almost same spirit as in case of Open Government

Data (OGD) Platform India (data.gov.in)

Why OpenStreetMap?

● Much of the areas in this world remains not mapped

properly until now.

● Can draw maps for innovative uses and needs.

● Free services delivered by corporates could be stopped,

or made paid service – But that usually doesn't occur

with the services delivered by communities.

Koorachundu Village Panchayat● Kozhikode Dist. - Koyilandy Taluk – Balussery Block.

● Villages - Koorachundu, Chakkittapara, Kayanna and

Kanthalad.

● Most of the areas remain unsurveyed.

● Forest - Pervannamuzhi Range, Malabar WLS.

● KSEB – Kuttiyadi Hydroelectric Project (Kakkayam

Dam and reservoir).

● Irrigation – Kuttiyadi Irrigation Project –

Peruvannamuzhi Reservoir.

Koorachundu Village Panchayat

Koorachundu Village Panchayat

Four Villages

Guidelines of Govt.

● Common Guidelines for Watershed Development

Projects - GoI, 2008

● Chapter 2. Guiding Principles

● V. Capacity Building and Technology Inputs:

Current trends & advances in IT & Remote Sensing

● Chapter 3. Technology Inputs

● Core GIS facilities

● DPR - Resource Maps, Cadastral maps

Need of a Map –Mahatma Gandhi NREGA

● Need to prepare a Watershed based master plan

● Watershed Works Manual - October 2007.

● Baba Amte Centre for People’s Empowerment for

Ministry of Rural Development, G O I.

● Chapters - 5 Mapping and 6 Technical Surveys of a

Watershed.

● G.O.(Ms.)No.49/2009/LSGD Dated 7/4/2009

Base maps and documents

1. Topo sheets - Survey of India

2. Watershed Atlas, Land form Map, Drainage Map,

Relief Map -KSLUB

3. Resource Map – KSLUB, CESS, Village Panchayats

4. Watershed Maps - Soil Survey Department, IKM

5. Administration Map - Village Panchayat

6. Block Level Watershed Plan - Block Panchayat

7. Cadastral Map - Village, Taluk offices

SPSP for IWMP

● State Perspective and Strategic Plan for Integrated

Watershed Management Programme, Kerala.

● Submitted to Dept. of Land Resources, MoRD, GoI

● By LSGD, Government of Kerala

● Availability of GIS layers

● Cadastral map: Available with Information Kerala

Mission(IKM) under the Govt. of Kerala in the

scale 1:5000

Kasturirangan Report

● Report of the High Level Working Group (HLWG)

● G.O.(Rt) No.188/2013/Envt. Dated 21/12/2013.

● Fixation of Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) - Field

verification - Constituted Village Panchayat level

verification committee.

● Instructed to Fix ESA and submit report before

13/01/2014.

Map for Verification Committee

“Sevagram” Gramakendram

● Circular No.352008/DA3/2012/LSGD Dated 28/03/2014

● G.O.(Ms) No.112/2014/LSGD Dated 25/06/2014.

● Extension centre of Village Panchayat in each ward.

● Important statistics, Various maps (Political,

Resource, Social, Drainage, Landuse) must be

displayed there for public information.

State Election Commission'shandbook

● “Good governance through legal awareness - Hand

book for People's Representatives and officials at

LSGIs" – 2013 (SEC-K & KILA - Page no: 12, 13).

● Ward delimitation - using Cadastral Map.

● From Information Kerala Mission

● If IKM didn't prepare a cadastral map for a

particular village panchayat, then that should be

prepared with the help of Survey Department.

State Election Commission'sOrder

● Order No. 311/2014/SEC Dated: 18/6/2014

● LSGIs of Kerala have no systematically prepared

base maps useful for administrative, scientific and

academic purposes as an official document.

● Such a map would be useful as a base document for

future delimitation of wards or bifurcation of LSGIs.

The Reality

● Resource Map – NO

● Cadastral Map - NO

● Administration Map – Yes.., We will see that..

Ward Map - Administrative

State Election Commission'sOrder – less scientific.

● To be authentic, map should be prepared by

Department of Survey and Land Records.

● The maps for village panchayats will be in A3 size

and will be in defined scale (municipality: A2 size,

municipal corporation: A1 size).

● Department of Survey and Land Records will prepare

the final map, using AutoCAD.

Village PanchayatSteering Committee

● Resolution no: 2 dated 17/07/2014. - To conduct OpenStreetMap mapping party to map the area.

● Official partnership and Volunteers from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing.

● Field level resource persons from Village panchayat.

● Volunteers from Dr. R.Satheesh Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS- Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and from Wikimedians and one from IT@School project.

OpenStreetMapMapping Party

● Koorachundu Village Panchayat - OpenStreetMap

Mapping Party

● 4 days - 21/07/2014 to 24/07/2014.

● 20 OSM - GPS survey volunteers.

● 17 Field level resource persons.

● Team – 1 or 2 OSM volunteers + 1 or 2 resource

person.

● Food and accommodation by Village Panchayat.

How we did it● In field:

● Android mobile phones with GPS receiver● Three Android Apps

● GPS Logger for Android (GPL)● Keypad-Mapper – OpenStreetMap (BSD)● OSMTracker for Android™ (GPL V3)● GPX tracks and data in OSM format

● At desk:● JOSM (GPL)● iD (WTFPL)● and Microsoft Bing Imagery

In Field

GPS Logger for Android

Keypad-Mapper - OpenStreetMap

OSMTracker for Android™

At Desk

JOSM

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JOSM

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JOSM

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iD

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Before Mapping activities

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Before Mapping party

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After Mapping party

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Processing

● Followed a Standard ETL Procedure● Extracted the data from OpenStreetMap● Transformed and Loaded in QGIS

● Processed and prepared map with QGIS● Vector → OpenStreetMap → Import topology

form .osm(xml)● Output SpatiaLite DB →Export topology to

SpatiaLite DB in QGIS● Compose in QGIS Map Composer → Exported

as .svg● Finishing works with Inkscape

Boundary Map from CSO

Ward Map-Administrative (Compromised)

Resource Persons

● George Pottukulam● Tomy Pazhampallil● Jose Malepparambil● Sijo● Thomas Thundiyil● Andrews Kattikkana● Jose Veliyath● Johnson Ettiyil● Manoj Kumar T K

● Johnson Thannikkal● Devasya

Kappalumakkal● M J Mani● Asees O S● Joy Kurian● Jolly● M C Joy Master● Koovannil Jose

Volunteers

● Anuradhika Padman● Harsha C Anil● Archana Deth V● Anjali M Nair● Sivakumar P R● Ark Arjun● Alex K Thottunkel● Manoj K● Sooraj Kenoth● Anandu Vishnu P S

● Lifo Lukose● Anvar Ali M● Jean Joy● Divya Merin Abraham● Justin Thomas● P Yogeshwaran● Sainath P Nair● Poornima Rajan● Sarath S Karanchira● Sreejith Koiloth

Special thanks

● Prime Jyoti – For suggestions on mapping and tips.

● Hrishikesh K B (SMC) – For web support.

● Members of Koorachundu Village Panchayat.

● Staff at O/o Koorachundu Village Panchayat.

● Staff at Public health Establishments at Koorachundu

Village Panchayat.

Feedbacks

● “This was the first experience ever in my life. It

totally improved my knowledge towards my studies.

And thanks for giving such an opportunity” – A

volunteer

● "I feel great experience and I am very lucky to get

such a great motivation and support from

authorities” – Another volunteer

Later

● In order to prepare a Cadastral map,● Two Surveyors were deputed for field level

verification, from Dept. of Survey & Land Records.● Prepared a draft Cadastral map based on current

notification. (G.O(Ms)No.354/12/Revenue dt 17/09/2012 Koorachundu Village reorganisation)

● Started a joint field verification of the area with three authorities: Survey & Land Records, Village office and Village Panchayat

● 20/10/14, 19/11/14 and 26/11/14

Joint Field Verification

Joint Field Verification

Status now

● Joint verification being stopped.● G.O(Rt)No.52703/14/Revenue dt 31/10/2014● Surveyors being reallocated to LRM duties.

● G.O(Rt)No.30302/2014/LSGD dt 20/11/2014 Permissive sanction for spending upto Rs: 100,000/- to make cadastral map and allied expenses in in village panchayats coming under the Kasturi rangan report.

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jaisuvyas@gmail.com | arkarjun@gmail.com