Re: [talk-ph] City in well city names

2010-02-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Totor, We are having the same problem in Wikipedia. The current naming convention there is to add the City but there's a proposal to drop the City in most of them. Except for those cities that share names with other prominent places (Iloilo, Cebu, Davao, Cotabato, Isabela, Quezon, Sorsogon

Re: [talk-ph] City in well city names

2010-02-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, not Makati City. It will be the same for Barangays as well as for other geographic units. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Totor, We are having the same problem in Wikipedia. The current naming convention there is to add the City

[talk-ph] OpenStreetMap Workshop at FEATI University Post-Report

2010-02-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Here is my report of what transpired last March 20 at FEATI University: http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/osm_workshop_feati Sorbi, thanks for inviting us. I, Maning, and Rally had fun! :-) So, are there other students out there who wants to us to give them something similar? Just

[talk-ph] Featured image: OpenOrienteeringMap of Ayala Center

2010-02-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, This week's Featured image is the OpenOrienteeringMap render of Ayala Center: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:OpenOrienteeringMap_of_Ayala_Center,_Makati_2010-01-29.png (I mentioned OpenOrienteeringMap last month:

Re: [talk-ph] Quarterly Mapping Parties (was: Re: Looking forward to OSM-PH in 2010

2010-02-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_Party/Cubao [2] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-February/000439.html [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_Party/Marikina Eugene (osm:seav) On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea

Re: [talk-ph] OSM workshop for geodetic engineering students

2010-02-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Anybody else interested in teaching college students about OSM? It will be this Saturday, Feb 20 over here: http://osm.org/go/4zhQLvtMt-- On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi maning, I'm interested in helping here. :-) On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10

[talk-ph] Proposed Mapping Party venue for the 2nd quarter: Corregidor!

2010-02-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I know that we still haven't had the 1st quarter Mapping Party (set for March 20), but I just had a great idea for the 2nd quarter Mapping Party. Since we went out of town last year to map Tagaytay, I think an out-of-town trip during the summer would be great too and what's a better

[talk-ph] Wayne Dell Manuel wins $50K for the Philippines in Google's Map Maker Competition

2010-02-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Some nice news from our competition :-) Our global mapping competition ran December 15, 2009 to January 31, 2010. The competition winner is Wayne Dell Manuel of the Philippines. The $50,000 grand prize donation to UNICEF goes to projects in the Philippines. Links:

[talk-ph] Video of edits in Haiti by ITO World

2010-02-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
In a similar, but different, style to their famed 2008: A Year of Edits video, ITO World created an animation of the edits in Haiti and Port-au-Prince in the wake of the deadly earthquake. Check it out on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/9182869 and see Christopher Osborne's article on The Guardian:

[talk-ph] Featured image for the week of February 14

2010-02-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Do you know one thing that's good for the heart 3? Biking! And so our featured image for the week of February 14 is the map of cycleways in Marikina City. :-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Marikina_cycleways.png Other featured images are here:

[talk-ph] Dinagat Islands is no longer a province

2010-02-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It seems that the Supreme Court nullified RA 9355, or the act that created the province of Dinagat Islands from Surigao del Norte http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/02/11/10/sc-says-dinagat-islands-no-longer-province. The SC says that the creation did not meet the requirements for the

Re: [talk-ph] OSM workshop for geodetic engineering students

2010-02-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, I'm interested in helping here. :-) On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A GE student org requested OSM workshop tentative date is Feb 20 or Feb 27. Anyone willing to team up? Initial plan for the day: 1 - OSM intro and

Re: [talk-ph] Quarterly Mapping Parties (was: Re: Looking forward to OSM-PH in 2010

2010-02-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
For the first quarter Mapping Party, let's set it for March 20, Saturday (or 21, Sunday). This is an arbitrary selection more than a month into the future and far from long weekends. Hopefully most people don't have plans for that weekend yet. If you don't have plans on that weekend yet, block it

[talk-ph] ITO World is now in the process of doing their 2009 video (maybe)

2010-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I'm sure many of you have seen this amazing animation by ITO World showing editing activity in 2008: http://vimeo.com/2598878 If you haven't seen this yet, you should! I consider this video to be the best visualization of OpenStreetMap data to date. Well, they are apparently hard at

Re: [talk-ph] Navteq/Nokia finally shows their mapping data for the Philippines

2010-02-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:55 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Out of simple curiosity, is there a way to detect that some of our data was conflated into the navteq ph coverage? I believe navteq contracted a local company to update Philippine data. Based on the areas I've

[talk-ph] OSM-PH Featured images for Jan 31 and Feb 7

2010-02-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I have initiated a Featured images activity for OSM-PH[1]. This is similar to the project-wide Featured images[2] but this is specific to the Philippines. Maning has already mentioned[3] the first featured image, and this is the Naga City map[4] which was featured on January 24. The

[talk-ph] Navteq/Nokia finally shows their mapping data for the Philippines

2010-02-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I have been checking out http://maps.ovi.com and until recently, Nokia had only been showing the public domain VMAP0 data (which is data only good for 1:1,000,000 scale maps--meaning low resolution). Nokia announced recently that they would be offering free turn-by-turn navigation and I guess,

[talk-ph] Add yourself to the WikiProject Philippines member list!

2010-01-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello guys, Since there are quite a number of new people here, I'd like to invite you to add yourself to the member list for OpenStreetMap Philippines in the OSM Wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Members You will need to create a new account for the Wiki. I suggest

Re: [talk-ph] changes of raod types

2010-01-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
to choose a highway tag (see highway=road for roads that require classification). For people tracing from sat images but are unsure of the actual road type please use highway=road For comments. cheers, maning On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types

2010-01-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM, riber101-...@yahoo.com wrote: Looking at the length of road of the different types this seem to underline the problem. Motorway, Trunk, Primary, secondary and tertiary should only be a tiny fraction of all the roads. The bulk of the roads should be of

[talk-ph] OpenOrienteeringMap

2010-01-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Check out OpenOrienteeringMap [1]! This shows OSM data rendered as UK-style orienteering maps [2]. The style is quite beautiful and looks like it was made by a professional company. For instance check out Ayala Center in Makati [3]. It's probably a nice alternative to the default and

Re: [talk-ph] Gensan Google Mapping Party

2010-01-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
later when most of the mappers are free. Best, murlwe -Original Message- From: Eugene Alvin Villar [sea...@gmail.com] Sent: 1/12/2010 2:34:54 AM To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Gensan Google Mapping Party Hi guys, especially the OSMers in Davao

[talk-ph] Gensan Google Mapping Party

2010-01-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, especially the OSMers in Davao, There apparently was a Google Mapping Party in Gensan last December 29: http://raincindyblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/gensan-google-mapping-party.html In light of this, when will the IGaCoS (Samal) Mapping Party be? We can't let Google have all the fun! :-P

Re: [talk-ph] Boundaries covered by high-res imagery

2010-01-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Nope. Ian is the one who did that partial trace. I guess nobody else bothered to trace some more. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:40 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Do we have complete trace of the bounds of Yahoo! imagery? I saw the partial southern bounds for Metro

[talk-ph] Looking forward to OSM-PH in 2010

2009-12-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello guys, First of all, Merry Christmas to all of you! Maning, Neil and I discussed several things after going out mapping parts of Cubao. The topics mostly revolved around things that the Philippine OSM community can focus on in 2010. OSM LICENSE MOVE TO ODBL There

Re: [talk-ph] Post-Cubao Mapping Party Report

2009-12-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
guys! On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, Here's my report for the Cubao Mapping Party that happened last December 12. :-) http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/osm_cubao_party_post_report Eugene / seav http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com

[talk-ph] Post-Cubao Mapping Party Report

2009-12-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Here's my report for the Cubao Mapping Party that happened last December 12. :-) http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/osm_cubao_party_post_report Eugene / seav http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-ph] SOTM 2010 Philippine Bid?

2009-11-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
And Mike Collinson suggested in his 2008 SOTM talk that SOTM 2010 should be held in Boracay. :-) On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:51 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Saw this in the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2010 State Of The Map 2010 Talking

Re: [talk-ph] Time for another mapping party?

2009-11-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
17, 2009 at 7:30 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Retrying this appeal. Anybody interested for a mapping party before 2009 ends? Or an OSM-PH mini conf? Or both? On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, It's been 4

[talk-ph] Michael Collinson's talk about OSM and the Philippines at SOTM 2008

2009-11-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, You might want to see this: http://vimeo.com/7097011 It's a video of Mike Collinson's talk The Philippines - OSM at work in Asia given at State of the Map 2008 in Limerick, Ireland. ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

[talk-ph] OSM and mapping professionals

2009-11-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, In case you weren't aware, there was a very lively discussion over at the Mapping Mindanao blog where a mapping professional suggested that local OSM mappers invite people like him to talk about mapping knowledge and how mapping amateurs (i.e. OSMers) need to be aware about basic mapping

Re: [talk-ph] new high-res images available from digitalglobe

2009-10-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
talk committed to help. For option 3, can you join to at least start the tracing once we have the data? Parang code sprint only this time trace sprint ala google map maker mapping party. On 10/21/09, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: I think a combination of options 1 and 3

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: Planning ahead of disasters with GIS

2009-10-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
How big an area do the data sheets cover? Maybe the budget also covers data maintenance over a set number of years? Then again, the government tends to overbudget on IT projects like this. :-/ On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Pucha! I almost

Re: [talk-ph] Fw: Philippines

2009-10-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I joined the Typhoon Ondoy Google Groups ( http://groups.google.com/group/typhoonondoy) and brought up the OSB map and the use of OSM tiles as an alternative layer for areas where Google Maps is poor (like Laguna). Anyway, check out this interface they developed incorporating OSM Mapnik tiles as

Re: [talk-ph] MapAction using osm-ph data

2009-10-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: I can make any specific data requests to MapAction. Let me know specifically what I should ask them for. -Mikel -- *From:* Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com *To:* maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com *Cc:* osm-ph

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: need help on mapping for ondoy/Kestana flood victims in Metro Manila

2009-10-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
From: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com To: maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com Cc: osm-ph talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 8:59:56 AM Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: need help on mapping for ondoy/Kestana flood victims in Metro Manila Let's

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: need help on mapping for ondoy/Kestana flood victims in Metro Manila

2009-10-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Let's take note that any solution does *not* need to have OSM data involved. We do not need to push the OSM agenda right now since this is an emergency situation. What the OSM community can do right now is to continue improving the OSM map data in the most affected areas: Marikina, Pasig, Cainta,

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: need help on mapping for ondoy/Kestana flood victims in Metro Manila

2009-10-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
persons layer comes from the ondoymanila Google Site On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Let's take note that any solution does *not* need to have OSM data involved. We do

Re: [talk-ph] need help on mapping for ondoy/Kestana flood victims in Metro Manila

2009-09-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi maning, The Ondoy situation maps on Google Maps My Maps ( http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8hl=enmsa=0msid=110868206150348750692.00047479b6400ee29bd89ll=14.645791,121.107874spn=0.107954,0.154324

Re: [talk-ph] need help on mapping for ondoy/Kestana flood victims in Metro Manila

2009-09-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello, More information: Typhoon Ketsana[1] brought massive flooding to the Philippines. In just 12 hours, rainfall to Metropolitan Manila has brought more water than the monthly September average and has broken a 1967 rainfall record. There has been already around 240 people who are confirmed

Re: [talk-ph] Donations needed for the Philippines due to Tropical Storm Ketsana

2009-09-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Ack... I only realized now that I send this email to the wrong list. This should have gone to the main OSM mailing list. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all, This mail has nothing directly to do with OSM but I would like to appeal

Re: [talk-ph] need help on mapping for ondoy/Kestana flood victims in Metro Manila

2009-09-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, The Ondoy situation maps on Google Maps My Maps ( http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8hl=enmsa=0msid=110868206150348750692.00047479b6400ee29bd89ll=14.645791,121.107874spn=0.107954,0.154324) is the most publicized webmap there is. It shows the locations of people needing immediate

Re: [talk-ph] Tropical Storm Ondoy: are you guys ok?

2009-09-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Update: Rally and his family are safe in their house in Taytay. Water entered their house but it was only 3 inches deep. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Update: I got this news from Eric Punzalan over at the WaypointsDotPH Yahoo! Groups: FYI Our

Re: [talk-ph] Tropical Storm Ondoy: are you guys ok?

2009-09-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. Praise God! We deeply appreciate your concern. ed and kids p.s. my wife was not at home at that time so she was spared from the flood as well. Praise God again. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Update: I got this news from Eric Punzalan over

Re: [talk-ph] Tropical Storm Ondoy: are you guys ok?

2009-09-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. Any news on maning? -rally On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Update: Rally and his family are safe in their house in Taytay. Water entered their house but it was only 3 inches deep. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea

Re: [talk-ph] Time for another mapping party?

2009-09-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm good with Oct 10, 17 and 24. I prefer Saturdays. :-) On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:33 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: October weekends 4 11 18 25 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-ph] to anthony balico (Re: please revert this user's edit (Re: Fwd: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal(assistance required in various countries)))

2009-09-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Maning, To Anthony's credit, he has been deleting some of his contributions that were sourced from roadguide.ph. An example is this changeset from yesterday: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2542850 Eugene On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:06 PM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Non Profit Formation

2009-09-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:16 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Ok so we finally have all the incorporators and officers together. Eugene agreed to be President, and I will be Tres/Sec. So from everyone who agreed So Villar is the new President! :) joke Akala mo! to

Re: [talk-ph] Province place nodes

2009-09-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
=116.65,4.59,126.60,21.113056] (seems to be offline) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI Mike At 06:41 AM 14/09/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Why place=state? That's what the existing

Re: [talk-ph] Time for another mapping party?

2009-09-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:34 PM, ian lopez ian_lopez_1...@yahoo.com wrote: BTW, there are other spots with cloud cover and/or old data in Yahoo's Satellite Images: * The northern part of Ortigas Center (Barangay San Antonio) in Pasig City The roads in Ortigas Center core area are complete.

Re: [talk-ph] Time for another mapping party?

2009-09-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:31 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Some things that worked for Davao: 2. A separate tutorial session on how to map, before the event. Was the separate tutorial session effective? My concern about this is that if maximum participation is wanted,

Re: [talk-ph] Suggestion for unbarricaded one-way street corners

2009-09-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Jun, If the road is significantly divided (either with a center island or concrete barriers) then this should be modeled in OSM as two oneway=yes ways in opposite directions. If there is a through street connecting both sides then they should be connected to do proper routing. What you're

Re: [talk-ph] several variations of postcodes in osm-ph

2009-09-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I suggest using addr:postcode exclusively. Zip codes in the Philippines is really meant to facilitate addressing and addr:postcode does that nicely. Also, I don't think tagging streets with postal_code is that useful and may even be harmful. We'd be splitting streets whenever they cross a

[talk-ph] Province place nodes

2009-09-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello guys, I think we need to update the set of province place nodes. (An example is Catanduanes: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/305704527 ). It seems these province nodes were imported from the GEONet Names Server (GNS) by Mike Collinson. The problem is, the data is outdated: the

Re: [talk-ph] Province place nodes

2009-09-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: I can help a bit btw, where is the best ppoint to place the node? At the provincial capitol (if capitol location is known)? m or at the geographic center of the province? My personal preference is at the geographical

Re: [talk-ph] Province place nodes

2009-09-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Ok. I tried a crack at checking/fixing the Oriental Mindoro place node and found out that this is much harder than I thought. First, I tried confirming whether there's a place node for Oriental Mindoro. Doing this with Potlatch is impossible so I used Merkaartor and serially downloaded the data

Re: [talk-ph] Province place nodes

2009-09-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Why place=state? That's what the existing node have so I simply copied the convention. I checked Canada (since they have provinces and territories instead of states) and found out their nodes also use

[talk-ph] Monopoly City Streets online game uses OpenStreetMap data

2009-09-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Some of you might probably have heard of Monopoly City Streets [1] which is an online version of the Monopoly board game using real-world streets. They are using Google Maps tiles to show the board but OSM street data for the actual street data (because Google doesn't have them

Re: [talk-ph] more address info in Makati

2009-08-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This data was actually collected before by Neil when he added the buildings. But he used addr:building instead of addr:housenumber of the Karlsruhe Schema. I just renamed the tags. Now the problem is, Mapnik, when it sees a building number, displays that instead of the building name. I think it

[talk-ph] Amenity areas now have icons in Mapnik

2009-08-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Amenities mapped as either nodes or areas now have icons rendered in the Mapnik layer. Before, only amenity nodes have icons (though areas already have icons in the Osmarender layer). This means that there may be redundant data in the database. For example, this Shell station now has

Re: [talk-ph] bulk editing address info in POIs

2009-08-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's my two cents regarding this: I don't favor using addr:city, addr:village, is_in to specify where a POI is. Here are the cons: 1. Duplication of info with admin borders (and potential mismatch issues) 2. Increased data size with respect to tags (which makes planet dumps larger) On the

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hmmm, I think the guys from the Tagalog Wikipedia can help since they've been translating interface texts in TranslateWiki. This is a simple though labor-intensive task. By this time, most of the languages below should have short articles about each country in their respective Wikipedias. The

Re: [talk-ph] Draft MoA between the OSM-F and any possible localchapter

2009-08-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, and I'm going to the Phils in 3 weeks anyway, so if it will happen between 3 and 7 weeks from now, perfect! Ronny. Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Ronny volunteered to be one of the incorporators before: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-May/000901.html On Mon, Jul 27, 2009

Re: [talk-ph] Draft MoA between the OSM-F and any possible localchapter

2009-08-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
At 04:08 PM 6/08/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: I think I mentioned this before but I disagree with the fee. In the draft agreement, the idea is to pay £10 *for each member of the local chapter*! I think this is too much. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:36 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb

Re: [talk-ph] Draft MoA between the OSM-F and any possible localchapter

2009-08-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
proposed). On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd.r...@develo.ltd.uk wrote: Sorry I missed this. Yes, I still volunteer, and I'm going to the Phils in 3 weeks anyway, so if it will happen between 3 and 7 weeks from now, perfect! Ronny. Eugene Alvin Villar

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Nationnal websites

2009-08-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I guys Andre and Ahmed can and should take of this? On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:26 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Don't know how to respond here: On Monday 03 August 2009 20:09:23 SLXViper wrote: www.openstreetmap.is and osm.is weren't mentioned as far as I could

Re: [talk-ph] changes of raod types

2009-08-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I suggest that the tags for highway=trunk,primary,secondary,tertiary,unclassified be considered as a function of traffic patterns and not of DOTC designation nor physical appearance or condition. These values should also be considered relative to local traffic patterns. This means that levels

Re: [talk-ph] Draft MoA between the OSM-F and any possible localchapter

2009-07-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Ronny volunteered to be one of the incorporators before: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-May/000901.html On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: no responses yet, need 1 more, 4 cannot make a company, need 5

Re: [talk-ph] Variable zoom level visibility

2009-07-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Ed, It is usually not appropriate to add tags or to adjust the data to fix rendering problems. This is the problem of the renderer tool itself and not of the data. In this case, the renderer should be able to recognize that there are only two POIs in an area and so should show them in lower

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] keepright! goes global

2009-07-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Marloue Pidor mur...@mail2engineer.comwrote: Ohh, but I added a flight route from Davao to Manila. Check the data, its there but I don't know why it did not appear. So, Technically Davao is connected to Manila by plane. I will try to add ferry route to

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] keepright! goes global

2009-07-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
to the world, because of these gaps)? I'll try to connect them tomorrow. --- On Mon, 7/20/09, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: From: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] keepright! goes global To: Totor Osm totor_...@yahoo.com Cc

Re: [talk-ph] Draft MoA between the OSM-F and any possible localchapter

2009-07-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm willing to be an incorporator. And since the minimum capital for a non-profit is 5k pesos (I think), I'm willing to donate 1k pesos. However, the minimum required to open a bank account is 20-25k (depending on the bank) so I'm hoping somebody else can help foot that. :-) Suggestion: I think

[talk-ph] Edit in Meycauayan exposed a bug in the OSM servers

2009-07-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hey maning, This changeset of yours ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1823709 ) exposed a bug in the OSM infrastructure. Apparently, the usage of UTF-8 versus an XML subset of it was not considered in the tool chain leading to a stoppage of importation of minutely diffs:

[talk-ph] Accu-map's GPS maps

2009-07-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Accu-map is the mapping division of Asiatype which creates those beautiful Metro Manila Citiatlas maps. Last year, they partnered with AVT ( http://www.avt.ph/ ) to bring routable GPS navigation for cars and released their P18.5k Navigator A800 product early this year. Anyway, check out

Re: [talk-ph] looking GPS POI/icons for OSM-PH garmin gps map

2009-07-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, I'll help you create the icons. What format should they be in? Eugene On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:24 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Sorry for the appeal (not entirely osm related) The next phase for my osm sub-project OSM-PH GPS map, is to create custom

[talk-ph] Davao Mapping Party report

2009-07-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, The Davao people have posted a report of their mapping party last Saturday: http://mapping.ideacampdavao.com/2009/07/davao-mapping-party-post-party-report.html Cheers! Eugene / seav -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com ___ talk-ph mailing list

[talk-ph] PIA article: Online mappers to launch Davao mapping party

2009-06-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Check this article from the Philippine Information Agency: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12fi=p090618.htmno=14 Way to go Davao mappers! So, how was the workshop last Saturday? Eugene / seav ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-ph] invitation by bmw club

2009-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think I can squeeze some time for this. :-) On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:06 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: I just got an invitation for a breakfast meeting with the bmw club. They are interested in our project mostly for gps navigation. They want to know more about OSM-PH

[talk-ph] Makati CBD: Salcedo Village is pretty much complete

2009-06-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Kudos to Neil for virtually completing the office/residential buildings here! http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.55949lon=121.02177zoom=17layers=B000FTF I'm guessing his next taget is Legaspi Village. :-) ___ talk-ph mailing list

[talk-ph] The legality of tracing over Google's satellite imagery

2009-06-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Richard (Potlatch developer) has blogged about legal precedent and did a non-lawyer analysis of whether tracing stuff from Google Maps or Google Earth is allowed or not. See http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100 But while he argued that it is actually permitted to trace over Google's

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: RFC: importing Palawan roads

2009-06-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Maybe the Palawan data as a whole is not ok, but looking at the image you supplied for Puerto Princesa, maybe that city's downtown data is still good enough after shifting it to more or less match the existing OSM data. While some parts will not be GPS accurate, the data is still pretty much

Re: [talk-ph] Davao City Tourism Office

2009-06-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Nice! I've created a Wiki page for your mapping party: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_Party/Davao_City This wiki page is intended to be a static documentation of the event geared for the OSM community audience (not necessarily OSM newbies or casual browsers).

Re: [talk-ph] gps traces from a delivery service company

2009-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Caveats: most GPX traces uploaded to OSM *are not* suitable for determining traffic data. In most cases, the fact that one is surveying affects how one drives and so the GPX data records how one surveys, not how one actually drives. Also, unless there's a fixed folksonomy, you cannot determine

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
One suggestion I can give is the McKinley Hills area in Taguig, south of the American Cemetery. This is still mostly pristine unmapped area in OSM and Google Map Maker without any updated satellite imagery in Yahoo! or Google (at least for their default base imagery [the historical imagery

Re: [talk-ph] Google Map Maker Mapping Party now in the Philippines

2009-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: So more PR basically? Yeah, more PR. And here's my contribution to that PR: http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/google_map_maker_party :-p ___ talk-ph mailing list

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: What are is this exactly? by ISM and British School? The fort area is a good area for a meeting for all people north and south. If so this time we want to secure ourselves a good meeting area where we can have

Re: [talk-ph] smackcode and osm on ideacamp-davao

2009-06-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Galing! I've seen a few OSM-themed presentations lately and the ITO OSM 2008 video never fails to make an appearance. Hehehe. And looking at that animation never gets old. I hope we can make an equally beautiful animation for the Philippines. :-) On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:09 PM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] Philippines PGS coastline import

2009-06-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hmmm... I think we should treat this like any other import (like the recently-discussed Palawan data). In lots of areas, the coastline has already been adjusted from the SRTM-based coastline before using the Landsat imagery in Yahoo. PGS is based from Landsat so in these areas, the PGS might not

Re: [talk-ph] just a thought OSM Philippines mini-conference

2009-06-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Guys, Let's try starting with this long-ago thread again and see where we end up with? We can target an July or August date or something for this event. Eugene / seav On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If the idea gains traction, you might want to call it

[talk-ph] OSM Italia

2009-06-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
There's a nice short blog post on the official OSM blog about the self-organizing efforts of the Italian OSM community: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=522 Think we can do the same this year? :-D Eugene / seav -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com ___

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Galing! This is a great piece of work. Do you download the Landsat images from their website? Ma-try nga. :-) On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:26 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: ed, On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ed Garciaeppgar...@gmail.com wrote: interested in mapping the

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: RFC: importing Palawan roads

2009-06-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I was about to ask you to ask them how they compiled their data. It obviously wasn't traced over Google Earth nor taken using GPS tracks. I think Rally might have guessed their method correctly. On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: --

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Lake Caliraya is highly irregular. It's basically a man-made lake created by damming a valley. So there's a lot of narrow spots in there. I'm not so sure if bancas can readily go up along those narrow branches. Then again, I haven't been to the place. Hehehe. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:58 PM,

Re: [talk-ph] OSM at ideacampdavao

2009-06-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Marloue Pidor mur...@mail2engineer.comwrote: In connection to this we just guested on a radio show of DXAB 1296 kHz (AM Station of ABS-CBN Davao) with Councilor Mabel Acosta. We promoted OSM its applications to the community, internet and IT as a whole. And

Re: [talk-ph] New data import of San Carlos City, Negros

2009-06-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: I believe so, I specifically requested the San Carlos City to give me the data under wgs84 proj and datum. (But we can never be sure, since I only received the shapefile data and no accompanying GIS metadata).

Re: [talk-ph] race to trace Sales interchange

2009-06-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Nah. Too expensive. :-) On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:27 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, ianlopez reported via openstreetbug that the Sales interchange going to NAIA terminal 3 is open: http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/?id=42356 I challenge everyone to trace this new

Re: [talk-ph] Google Map Maker Mapping Party now in the Philippines

2009-05-31 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I haven't seen Google announce this event generally so I guess it's an invitation-only affair. It will be on June 3 in the evening in Makati. I think some of them are aware of OSM but I'm planning to surreptitiously introduce OSM to those who don't know. Hehehe. Well, I think many will still

Re: [talk-ph] editing admin boundaries of Marikina

2009-05-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:09 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Having the internal boundaries is actually a con. The boundary of Marikina is its borders with other entities (like Pasig and Antipolo). The internal boundaries are more properly boundaries of the

Re: [talk-ph] New data import of San Carlos City, Negros

2009-05-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, Is the data in WGS84 coordinates? The data seems to be shifted to the west by a fixed amount. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:29 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: HI, FYI, we have a new data import from the San Carlos City, Negros LGU. Thanks to Noel and the rest

Re: [talk-ph] [OSM-talk] SOTM Scholarship Recipients Announced

2009-05-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, Egypt Anas Maraqa from Palestinian West Bank Anatolie Golovco from Moldova Arun Ganesh from Chennai, India Asif Rasul from Punjab, Pakistan Ciprian Talaba from Romania Claudomiro Nascimento Jr from Brazil Eugene Alvin Villar from Manila, Phillippines Freddy Rivera from Colombia Giorgi

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