A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
On April 26, India launched its own satellite-based navigation system called the IRNSS, short for Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. The objective: to provide accurate — better than 20 metres — location information to users in India as well as the region extending 1,500 km from its boundaries. When the IRNSS-1G — the...
Its been a long time dream to involve children with DataMeet activities. We just conducted a Data journalism workshop with children. In this Open Data Camp which is basically our yearly get together we wanted to get them started with environment sensors. Planning started a bit back, but we did change the plan...
I have maintained OpenBangalore for couple of years now. Most of the data on it is either contributed by me or by community. For months there has been demand for such a site for other cities. But its kind of difficult to build a community site for each city unless we have maintainers...
I like walking when I am in a new place. When I am in a human habitat I map postboxes or do some OSM. If I trekking then I try to take pictures of flora and fauna so I can add to Biodiversity map on iNaturalist.org along with capturing the trail for sharing....
Members of Karnataka Philatelic Society meet every first Sunday of the month at GPO, Bangalore. They invited me this time to come and talk about OpenPostbox. It was an awesome group to talk. It wasnt difficult to convince them to contribute. Members have already started sending me pictures of postboxes. I will have...
Like many of my readers I believe in Quantified Self. I believe in measuring most aspects of my life and reviewing it. I used various web platforms to do it. But the problem is sharing. Yes. Sharing. Most platforms allow you to share the data with them but wont allow to share the...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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