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sahilister

Mapper since:
September 18, 2020
Last map edit:
May 26, 2025

Hey there, I’m Sahil aka sahilister aka the water tower guy on the internet. I started mapping due to lack of mapped roads in my native village here in Himachal Pradesh, India. My initial goal was to map all the roads and places near my native place but it has since grown on to an obsession to add/edit/delete everything on OpenStreetMap.

Know more about me at sahilister.in.

Feel free to work on my #UnmappedIndia hashtag open notes (there’re plenty).

Latest Diaries

Completion of Mapping schools in Chandigarh project

Back in July 2022, I started mapping schools in Chandigarh. Now that I’m thinking, it wasn’t mapping schools (Oberaffe had already marked areas and...

0 comments March 05, 2023

Mapping schools in Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a planned city here in north India. Since being well flocked by mappers and easy (fun) grid layout of roads, most of the areas are al...

2 comments July 12, 2022