Hello. This is Mahamud. Again.
As you've already known that the first interest of 'The Bangladesh Network' is Maps of Bangladesh. It becomes the first interest as I'm also very interested to maps. During my undergraduate study, I took a course on GIS (Global Information System). I forgot almost everything that I was taught in that course. BUT that course makes me very much interested to maps.
After completing my Graduation, I got a job & posted to a remote area. I was the only man living in attached housing of the office other than cooks & security guards. So I started to find something interesting for myself to do. I went for some software training (by myself) like AutoCAD, ETABS etc. But those can't hold me for a long time. Then I went for movies and got bored after few days as well (internet connection was slow that time). I try some other things also in my leisure time but nothing clicked.
Then I started to look for maps to work with some GIS software. Actually, I'm very good at searching things over the internet. But this time I got disappointed. I only find 2 (two) sites having detailed maps of Bangladesh up to Upazila level. One is Banglapedia (www.banglapedia.org) by Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. And another one is maps-of-bangladesh.blogapot.com. But the problem in both the site is that the maps are very difficult to find. So I collect all the District & Upazila maps from those two sites and thinking of developing a unique website for "Maps of Bangladesh".
For this purpose, I bought one domain for one year. The domain was www.manchitro.org. I was determined to develop the website in Joomla CMS platform. And one year has passed by not finalizing anything about the site. Then I also went for developing the site in my localhost with Joomla. By this time, I was only looking to make a website about Maps of Bangladesh. But things changes afterward.
Mahamud, The Bangladesh Network.
