Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 75, Issue 20

2014-10-28 Thread Miles Sumner
When I relocated to the Philippines from the United States I was culture-shocked at the lack of the type of mapping I was accustomed to. I brought 2 Garmin GPS for driving directions that are not much good here except for paper-weights. I stumbled upon OSM and loaded the maps for my Garmin.

[talk-ph] misaligned boracay roads according to strava

2014-10-28 Thread maning sambale
See this: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#14/121.92472/11.97127/yellow/both Maybe someone more familiar can fix it with strava's slide: http://labs.strava.com/slide/ -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden

Re: [talk-ph] misaligned boracay roads according to strava

2014-10-28 Thread maning sambale
Sorry. The background maps are google. Doh! Still, some tracks in strava maybe added in OSM. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:46 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: See this: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#14/121.92472/11.97127/yellow/both Maybe someone more familiar can fix it

Re: [talk-ph] misaligned boracay roads according to strava

2014-10-28 Thread Carlo Antonio Romero
Hi Maning, Did a quick check using iD and the roads (in Boracay) are mostly aligned with the available OSM GPS tracks. yay! The Strava tracks seem to be aligned with the OSM Map with an approximated offset then viewed in Map Compare.

Re: [talk-ph] Welcoming new PH mappers

2014-10-28 Thread Arnoud Keizer
Hi Maning and others, Thanks for the welcome remarks :) I joined the Phil. OSM mailinglist also recently. The last month I conducted several OSM introduction and hands-on workshops, together with staff of NOAH and VSO Bahaginan. We did 3 introduction workshops on OSM-critical

Re: [talk-ph] Welcoming new PH mappers

2014-10-28 Thread Nick Brown
Hi Arnoud et al, I also had some similar questions I'd been noting down. Perhaps in the Ph Wiki Conventions page we could add a specific section discussing mapping for DRR critical infrastructure tags? - How to tag evacuation centers? How to add details (i.e. capacity, engineering