Vision

To develop the most detailed digital map of Bangladesh on Google Maps with as much accuracy as possible gathering local knowledge of everyone from across the country under one community.

History

Mapping Bangladesh, by a collaborative effort, added all government healthcare facilities across the country in all 485 Sub-Districts (locally: Upazila, Bengali: উপজেলা). They have also demarcated all 64 Districts and 485 Sub-Districts, hence completing the entire District and Sub-District layer of Google Maps on Map Maker with the help of LGED (Local Government Engineering Department) Maps.^[5] During the Map Maker APAC Regional Conference 2012 at Hyderabad, India in 2012, where Mapping Bangladesh community attended as well - the Google Map Maker Team expressed their surprise and gratitude for being able to stay organized and able to complete the project. The community has also marked all Railway stations across the country. Having these major projects succeeded and praised by Google Map Maker communities, the community is now working at a local level on other projects adding business listings, neighborhoods, ferry terminals and routes, roads, ports, rivers and everything that Map Maker interface and policies (see Terms of Service) allows them to add to Google Maps.^[6][7]     

Activities in 2012

Mapping Bangladesh initiated their forum and site in January 2012. The same year in March, Google transferred ownership of Bangladesh mapping to local RERs (Regional Expert Reviewers). The community joined Google Map Your World community in April and later on in July, opened their own chapter on Map Makerpedia, the crowd-sourced guide for Map Maker users. In August, Map Maker team created new default road speeds^[8] specifically for Bangladesh, a privilege only a few Map Maker enabled countries are claimed to have till today. The community published their first forum-newsletter in September which was claimed to be the first ever endeavor to publish a community-based newsletter by any community across Google Map Maker. They also completed the entire Sub-District layer of Bangladesh on Google Maps in November the same year. The first ever Google MapUp^[9] event^{[10][11][12][13][14]} in Bangladesh^[15][16] called MapUp Rangpur was hosted by the community in Rangpur on 23 November 2012. Different media of the country have seen the event to be a milestone^[17] for Bangladesh and bringing the country another step closer to reaching the Vision 2021 envisioned by the government. In honor of Map Maker contributors in Bangladesh, Google Map Maker team has published 4 time-lapse videos till date featuring Rangpur,^[18] Dhaka,^[19][20] Bogra^[21] and Chittagong.^[22] - cities where the RERs (Power Mappers) are mostly based.

Activities in 2013

The community participated^[23][24] in Bangladesh Smartphone Expo 2013 ^{[25][26][27][28]} and received overwhelming response. They also hosted the second Google MapUp^{[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]} event in Bangladesh at Dhaka on 9 February 2013. Their main objectives in 2013 are to host Google MapUp events across the country and teach people with internet how to contribute to the first digital map of the country on Google Maps with their local knowledge.^[36] Following the vision, they have organized 17 more MapUps across the country in Chittagong, Rangpur, Comilla, Kushtia, Khulna and in different public and private universities in Dhaka.[

ম্যাপিং বাংলাদেশ কমিউনিটির অফিশিয়াল ওয়েবসাইট চালু হয়েছে। http://mappingbd.org/ ঠিকানার ওয়েবসাইটটিতে সংগঠনটির বিভিন্ন কার্যক্রম তুলে ধরার পাশাপাশি গুগল ম্যাপে বিভিন্ন স্থাপনা যুক্ত করার পদ্ধতি জানা যাবে। বাংলা ও ইংরেজি ভাষায় তৈরি ওয়েবসাইটটিতে অভিজ্ঞ ম্যাপারদের কাছ থেকে পরামর্শও গ্রহণ করা যাবে। দেশের বিভিন্ন প্রান্তে বসবাসকারীদের অনলাইনে ম্যাপিং প্রশিক্ষণ দিতেই ওয়েবসাইটটি চালু করা হয়েছে বলে জানিয়েছে ম্যাপিং বাংলাদেশ কমিউনিটি।
দীর্ঘদিন বাংলাদেশের বিভিন্ন স্থাপনা ও রাস্তার তথ্য গুগল ম্যাপে যুক্ত করছে সংগঠনটি। বিজ্ঞপ্তি।
- See more at: http://www.kalerkantho.com/print-edition/tech-everyday/2013/11/18/22141#sthash.HVhp68CC.dpuf

uplod Bangladesh

Cartography, or mapmaking, has been an integral part of the human history for a long time, possibly up to 8,000 years.^[1] From cave paintings to ancient maps of Babylon, Greece, and Asia, through the Age of Exploration, and on into the 21st century, people have created and used maps as essential tools to help them define, explain, and navigate their way through the world. Maps began as two-dimensional drawings but can also adopt three-dimensional shapes (globes, models) and be stored in purely numerical forms.
The term cartography is modern, loaned into English from French cartographie in the 1840s, based on
 Middle Latin carta "map".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cartography


Map History In Bangladesh
Google opened up Google Map Maker, a public cartography project, to a collaborative community effort in certain territories in June, 2008. Bangladesh was open for editing on September 28, 2008. Mapping Bangladesh community was co-founded by Google and Altaf-Uz-Zaman on 17 January 2012. Afterwards, it started working with a view to uniting all mappers (citizen cartographers) across the country under one community.^[1] The community aimed at teaching citizen cartographers how to map features on Map Maker, provided a ground for discussion about local conventions and engaged in discussions about how to best represent the country digitally to the world by means of Google Maps.
Many of the Internet users in Bangladesh do not have mastery of English, as such many of the local mappers could not follow the Map Maker Help^[2] section in English given by GMM. Being the first ever Map Maker based community in Bangladesh, Mapping Bangladesh created a site composed fully in local language (Bengali) with illustrated tutorials, pictorials and videos for mappers to understand better how Map Maker works and how to use this online tool. Creation of the local Map Maker based tutorial site led to some serious mapping activity across the country increasing the number of members of the community from just a few to a several hundred as of 2013. Mapping Bangladesh community is praised and claimed to be one of the most organized mapping communities across Map Maker by other country-based Google Map Maker Communities.