I find a lot of similarities between city of Kochi and GTA Vice City: army/naval base on an extreme end of the city, beaches, yachts, boats, small small skyscrapers. So I thought of making map of Kochi in GTA Vice City style. I customized MapLibre GL JS and got this: https://github.com/subins2000/gta-vice-city-style-openstreet...
Since I customized MapLibre, any map of the world can now be seen in that style.
Telegram has the "download my data" option which can give you all the data in your account. Alternatively, one can use Telegram client API to fetch just a channel and its entire content.
The news story is bogus. Internet service providers can't see what webpage their clients are seeing because everything is HTTPS and there is no MITM from government here as one suggested in the comments. The only technical censorship in India is SNI based HTTPS website blocking and the HTTPS website blocks.
There is one in Element Android. When the phone is shaken, a dialogue pops up "It seems you're shaking your phone in frustration, file a bug report". It has in-app bug reporting.
The Kerala state government is doing an initiative to map Kerala in OSM, school-college students volunteer to map many places. It's been almost running for an year now : https://mapathonkeralam.in/
Many people doesn't know about OsmAnd yet, I've been using it full time now. For some places, OSM is more informative than gmaps and vice-versa. The data is increasing day by day, so it's a win-win for every OSM based app here. [OSM was used extensively during Kerala floods 2018 : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2018_Kerala_Floods,_Indi... which prompted the government to take initiative such as Mapathon Keralam.
> It just didn't have enough movement data where you tried it
That maybe the reason, main roads have it, side-roads not so much. GMaps now have offline destination finder, I guess it doesn't even consider the movement data. The dependence on internet service for better route calculation is a bummer for travelling here.
I use OsmAnd and there are a lot of features. What troubles with Google Maps in India is that every road is considered basically the same and the routes it calculate often tends to be on very bad roads whereas OsmAnd tries to pick the road based on quality/main-roads first then side roads. This is very useful in India where many roads have potholes. Major roads (national, state, district highways) are better maintained than the rest. This distinction between roads are clearly mapped in OSM, at least in Kerala.
GMaps also tries to calculate the very shortest path possible, but this often is a bad idea in India cause the roads won't be that great to go through.
Some of the things I like about OsmAnd: navigation-with-voice, speedbump warnings, sightseeing notifications, trip recording+stats, parking area finder, different profiles (walking, driving, browsing etc.) :- all this available offline :)
Since I customized MapLibre, any map of the world can now be seen in that style.
Since there were a lot of hospitals and other symbols in Kochi, I filtered some things out, you can see this map here: https://lab.subinsb.com/gta-vice-city-style-openstreetmap/ko...