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	#Fort Cochin Heritage Walk Mapping. http://geohackers.in/projects/fort_cochin_mapping_party		#Fort Cochin Heritage Walk Mapping. http://geohackers.in/projects/fort_cochin_mapping_party

	This is a call to share the mapping data with the openstreetmap venture and hence make the data available for anyone to use freely. By doing this we are assuring that the data can be read and modified by everyone and not locked away in Google's servers.		This is a call to share the mapping data with the openstreetmap venture and hence make the data available for anyone to use freely. By doing this we are assuring that the data can be read and modified by everyone and not locked away in Google's servers. Since there are mobiles that come with GPS technology, it would be a shame not to use them for publicly beneficial projects such as this. When there are vendors of high resolution satellite imagery providing far more detail, a move against such efforts seems farcical.