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

1. 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)

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Koorachundu Village Panchayat

8. Koorachundu Village Panchayat

9. Four Villages

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. Map for Verification Committee

16. “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.

17. State Election Commission's
handbook
● “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.

18. State Election Commission's
Order
● 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.

19. The Reality
● Resource Map – NO
● Cadastral Map - NO
● Administration Map – Yes.., We will see that..

20. Ward Map - Administrative

21. State Election Commission's
Order – 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.

22. Village Panchayat
Steering 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.

23. OpenStreetMap
Mapping 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.

24. 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

25. In Field

26. GPS Logger for Android

27. Keypad-Mapper - OpenStreetMap

28. OSMTracker for Android™

29. At Desk

30. JOSM
● F

31. JOSM
● F

32. JOSM
● F

33. iD
● F

34. Before Mapping activities
● F

35. Before Mapping party
● F

36. After Mapping party
● F

37. 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

38. Boundary Map from CSO

39. Ward Map-Administrative
(Compromised)

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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.

43. 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

44. 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

45. Joint Field Verification

46. Joint Field Verification

47. 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.

48. ?
jaisuvyas@gmail.com | arkarjun@gmail.com