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Vizag and Google’s data centres have been all over my feed this week.

This is the second in a series, Platform Engineering: Building, Defending and Becoming It*, walking through the learnings from building a geospatial platform, especially where it contradicted the regular theory of product development. * License: This arti…

Chitty Kampany turns a Google Sheet into a chit-fund management app - a phone-based collection screen instead of paper registers, and a live, auditable ledger instead of reconciling notebooks by hand.

This is first in a series Platform Engineering: Building, Defending and Becoming It, an attempt to walk you through the learnings from journey of building a geospatial platform, especially through the contradictions with regular theory of Product Develope…

Schemify turns a GeoJSON file into a schematic map, the straightened, angle-snapped look you see on subway and transit maps, directly in the browser.

This is the second part of the Decoding GeoAI series, an attempt to make sense of that new AI language.

This article is intended to explain some buzzwords in the modern AI era of Geospatial.

A long-time dream, finally taking shape.

Sparta Maps is the field data collection suite developed by SatSure Analytics India with a goal to take geospatial to the field.

REACH App (Resource Aggregation in Critical Hours), a disaster management application for the local self-government or NGOs.

This article explains the Map Tiles and the basic behind it.

A small experience story!

This article is intended to explain some basics of Geospatial, which many will get confused about and some smart ways to ensure you won’t get confused again.

In the last two parts of the series Mapping for Tomorrow: Building Resilience through OpenStreetMap Contributions, we have seen Why I started mapping in OSM and What motivated me to map.

In this blog I talk about certain tech and new words which I came across or started working with in 2024.

Data privacy and protection is always a comedy in India.

This is the blog version of my talk From Data Silos to Data Sharing-A Geodata Perspective at State of the Map Asia 2024, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Through this article I try to explain some engineering truths about Mullaperiyar Dam, as a follow up to my previous article.

Through this article I try to explain the technical glitch that happened with Google Maps over Mullaperiyar Dam.

In the first part of the series, The Mapping Evolution In My Life I laid out my journey that brought me to OSM, and also made an attempt to discuss the scope of the platform through discussion on “What is OSM?”

Yesterday when I was in the billing queue of a South Indian restaurant in the bus stand, an unexpected error in their billing system caused significant disruption.

Why are you contributing to OpenStreetMap?

It’s been a while I have been considering sharing my thoughts about the Public and Mass Transit Systems and City Dynamics.

This article is about the vandalism on map License: This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

The blog is to showcase and provide some descriptions of the maps I made during the 30 Day Map Challenge 2022.

Through this article I try to explain the technical glich happened with Google Maps over International Airport of Kochi.

The proposed application is an all in one solution for all the problems in construction industry.

A Machine Learning Driven Geo-intelligent Locality Recommendation System (LoReS) for finding the real estate properties based on customer segmentation approach.

Location intelligence is the new buzzword in the industry.

Development of a module and algorithm for removing the cloud cover form optical satellite imagery without losing the data and using FOSS libraries and tools.

A study to develop a public transport composite social need index for Kozhikode City Corporation using GIS tools.

A web based information system that provides every possible geographical as well as infrastructural information about campus.

നിങ്ങൾക്ക്മാപ്പ്‍ഇല്ല (Read as Ningalku Map Illa) is the hashtag I started on social media for flagging wrong maps of Kerala.

This blog is on the controversial island formation stories near Kochi coast and the truth behind it.

In this article I have tried to explain the concepts of maps and map projections with minimum technicalities even for a non technical reader to understand.

This cartoon is part of my AnB cartoon series and was done on 2017.

This article is an extension to the GDAL installation guide I published earlier on the SatSure blog.

Role of Open Data in the Geospatial World on SatSure’s Blog An article on the Open data and why comapnies need to contribute to open data.

14 December 2025 - Asianet News, Malayalam News Asianet News report (read Malayalam ) on the OpenDataKerala Team’s Kerala LSGI Election data visualisation project. 29 June 2023 - Mathrubhumi, Malayalam Daily Mathrubhumi news report (read Malayalam , Engli…

Maps are not just the big pictures in the hands of surveyors or sailors or tourists anymore.

This is a non tech writting.

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In News | As a Guest writer 2026 24 January 2026 - Why Building Community in India needs a Local First Approach, lessons from OSM Kerala, a session and event co chair organiser at State of the India 2026 at Nashik Engineering Cluster, Nashik, Maharashtra.…

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