Open Data Kerala Showcased at Wikimania 2024 in Poland

Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement, where contributors, editors, developers, and supporters of Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and others come together. It serves as a platform for community members to discuss and share ideas about free knowledge, open data, and the future of Wikimedia projects. The 19th edition of Wikimania took place in Katowice, Poland, from August 7th to 10th. This year’s event was a collaborative effort between the Wikimedians of the Central and Eastern European region and the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Kollam Asramam Ground Mapathon & Photowalk

Asramam ground in the heart of Kollam city is famous for its biodiversity as well as cultural heritage. In 1920s, it was used as an airport during British rule. There were a lot of improvements came in past few years and many of them weren’t mapped properly. As part of 20th birthday of OpenStreetMap, OSM and Wikimedia communities have arranged a mapathon and photowalk to map and document the Asramam maidan and its surroundings including Adventure Park.
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OpenStreetMap 20th Anniversary and Kole Mapping Initiative - Review and Consultation

Kole wetlands, which lies between Thrissur and Ponnani is one of the important Ramsar sites in India which also exists between central Asian Flyway of migratory birds. It is necessary to conserve and develop this wetlands by giving atmost importance. In accordance with 20th anniversary of OpenStreetMap, an event is conducting at Puzhakkal library, Muthuvara, Thrissur at 10.00 am, which aims to conduct a public review and consulation process for Thrissur - Ponnani Kole Wetlands, through an open mapping initiative.
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Releasing Historical Covid-19 Vaccination

It has been six months after India began the world’s largest vaccination drive. The vaccination for public in india started during the 2021 March 2nd week onwards. Open Data Kerala is happy to release the historical Covid-19 vaccination dataset of Kerala state’s and district’s under an open license from the data published on the CoWIN dashboard. The tabular dataset includes the total number of doses of vaccine admistrated till date and the total number of vaccine types admistrated.
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