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

2009-06-09 Thread maning sambale
Hi, I just had a phone discussion from a delivey/forwarding company. They own several delivery trucks equipped with GPS. They are willing to donate GPS traces provided we give them GPS maps (which I do anyway). Focus areas includes Visayas. Do you think this is a worthwhile data source? Of

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

2009-06-09 Thread Rally de Leon
Great. Actually, we need the data for averaging tracks (and if you ask me, I always prefer visual method for best-fit trace over existing satellite images, if they're available). otherwise, we just trace over the tracklogs which represent most likely the center-of-the-roads). Other mappers can

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

2009-06-09 Thread maning sambale
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Rally de Leonrall...@gmail.com wrote: How big are the files? He he. Excited, wala pa po. We have arranged further discussions. Honestly, I want to see the units first so that I can configure it to 1sec tracking :) Will keep the list posted and hope we can share

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

2009-06-09 Thread Marloue Pidor
For data donations, do you have any written (by paper of email) consent from the donor? If we have one, why not add the data to OSM. murlwe -Original Message- From: maning sambale [emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com] Sent: 6/9/2009 4:14:23 PM To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-ph]

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

2009-06-09 Thread Rally de Leon
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Marloue Pidor mur...@mail2engineer.comwrote: For data donations, do you have any written (by paper of email) consent from the donor? If we have one, why not add the data to OSM. murlwe Maybe it depends on the data. If gps tracks will come from delivery vans

Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 11, Issue 12

2009-06-09 Thread noel mondragon
Hi,   Can we put the NOAA shoreline data for OSM??it might be helpful if its free...   thanks,   ,noel ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 11, Issue 12

2009-06-09 Thread maning sambale
Not entirely sure, but NOAA coastline are too coarse for our level of mapping. Need to check and verfiy On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM, noel mondragonnoel_pylo...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Can we put the NOAA shoreline data for OSM??it might be helpful if its free... thanks, ,noel

Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 11, Issue 12

2009-06-09 Thread Ed Garcia
Yes, too coarse ... it is accurate enough in positioning, but coarse. It is what I used for waypoints.ph vicinity maps. It has more islands and islets though than the current OSM coastlines. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Not entirely