maning sambale wrote, On Thursday, December 04, 2008 09:02 AM:
So I had the idea of try to put in OSM. So here it is rendered in Mapnik:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.584958lon=120.982798zoom=18layers=B000FTF
You clearly have too much time on your hands! :-)
Jim
Hi,
Just uploaded three GPX tracks to OSM and have been trying to figure out how to
incorporate them into the map.
My first try was with Potlach. I press G to get the traces displaying, but
after that, I'm pretty much unable to do anything with them. I can convert to
Track and unlock
Well thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I'd already finished my tracks the hard
way by the time I read your post, so I'll have to use it next time. Anyway, the
national highway is now in place northbound from Cebu, and the tiny 1km by 2km
island of Malapascua now probably has the most detailed
Found a bunch of tracks on this site:
http://www.everytrail.com/browse.php?country=Philippines
The gpx files are available for download on each of the trips, as long as the
person uploading them has chosen to make them public.
http://www.everytrail.com/share-trips-gps-community.php
I'll
What's with the numbers on the map here?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.6488lon=120.9802zoom=14layers=B000FTF
Did the town planning department have an uncreative day?
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Yeah, I'm on for a meet up, particularly if beer is involved! Early Feb would
be prefered, as I'm going to be out of town for the last week of Jan.
Jim
maning sambale wrote, On Monday, January 12, 2009 11:44 AM:
Hi,
Can we have a meet-up this month (January)? Just an informal
gathering
Hi Michael,
I was asking about GPS equipment in this forum a couple of weeks ago and I got
the following info:
Try Infomax at Park Square, Greenhills, Megamall, Trinoma. They have some
Garmin products and a few BT GPS Rxs. The price is very high thougher
Apart from that, if you have friends in
ian lopez wrote, On Monday, January 19, 2009 10:12 AM:
The media coverage may be good for the Pinoy OSM community, but I'm
probably concerned that this would bring in vandals. Hopefully, it
wouldn't happen.
You know the saying there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Well yes, I guess
maning sambale wrote, On Thursday, January 15, 2009 04:00 PM:
Is Feb 7 or 8 OK with everyone?
Post your availability and preferred venue here.
Saturday 7th is good. Would prefer Makati, but Ortigas is also possible. Or
also possibly somewhere like the harbour side at Mall of Asia, or Harbour
I was just reading this article on an information security blog, and thought
some of you guys might enjoy it.
Our global society relies on the civilian GPS for our communications networks,
transportation of goods, power distribution, financial transactions and
emergency response, using
maning sambale wrote, On Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:02 AM:
So February 7, 6pm ish it is.
Where? Please post coordinates :D
OK, well as no-one else is stepping up, I'll provide a possibility in each
location, and we can vote on it.
1) Makati. Grappas, Greenbelt 3. Just awesome
Michael Cole wrote, On Thursday, January 29, 2009 03:57 PM:
On Thursday 29 January 2009 01:08:55 Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
Can we get a head count of who plans to go as well?
Looking like Makati ... In terms of venue, I don't really mind as long as there
is cold beer. Also generally prefer
You could try Expansys in HK, who will deliver.
http://www.expansys.com.hk/gps/accessories/antennas
I'm not quite sure how the the customs bit would work though ... I gather if
you mark something as Sample or Equipment Returns it doesn't get quite the
same attention ... (!). Or you
I've been running TrailExplorer on my Sony Ericsson Java phone. Would that do?
http://www.substanceofcode.com/software/mobile-trail-explorer/
From experience its worth trying a few versions if the latest doesn't work.
1.13beta works on my phone, but none of the subsequent ones.
Jim
I've been trying to figure out the Luzon coastline around Zambales, as its
driving me nuts. Personally I think it looks terribly offputting to see such a
glaring error, especially as we're seeing some new members recently.
So I looked at the coastline checker here,
Just checked in on this again. Its still broken. Should we escalate this to the
OSM people? I don't really know the procedure here.
Jim
Jim Morgan wrote, On Tuesday, February 24, 2009 09:19 AM:
D Tucny wrote, On Tuesday, February 24, 2009 07:10 AM:
It's all looking fine at the moment
Ahmed Farooq wrote, On Tuesday, March 24, 2009 07:44 AM:
First off - Jim did a fantastic job mapping out Boracay. Great link by
Maning for comparison's sake -
http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=googlemapmt1=mapniklon=121.9283lat=11.9
6235zoom=16
Aw, shucks ... but as they say A map is never
This has been bugging me for sometime, and I suddenly realised that there might
be someone in OSM PH who knows the answer.
I live in Kingswood:
http://openstreetmap.com/?lat=14.567079lon=121.012242zoom=18layers=B000FTF
When I look due North from my building I see two tall buildings on the
Can't remember if anyone mentioned it yet, but Clickthecity.com is using an OSM
mashup to provide locations for their venues.
eg http://guides.clickthecity.com/tools/map.php?b=Sv12ce0
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OK, well as everyone has an opinion on this one ... :-)
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Wednesday, May 06, 2009 08:20 PM:
It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and
Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise.
Do we mark out every retail
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:57 PM:
This is a rendering problem, not a problem of data collection. It's
theoretically possible to add more metadata to those resorts (like
N-star rating) so that a renderer can choose to, say, display only 4-
and 5-star resorts so as
I've been reading this guy's columns for probably about 10 years. He's normally
talking about the likes of Apple, IBM and the business of the Internet. And
he's smart as a whip. However here he takes on GPS networks. I thought some of
you might be interested.
Jim
Hi Totor,
Welcome to the family. :-)
I've done a bit of mapping in Cebu over the last year or so, but not much
actually in the city. I did a lot up north, on a holiday to Malapascua island
(which you should visit by the way - a lovely beach getaway), and then filled
in a few of the other
LBC Express worked pretty well last time. It was about 120 Pesos, which I
thought was a pretty good deal.
http://www.lbcexpress.com/
Jim
maning sambale wrote, On Friday, 05 June, 2009 06:43 AM:
GPStogo just for a week for the mapping party in Davao.
Give me an address off-list.
Is
Hi all.
I'm off to HK at the end of this week, and will be doing the customary tech
shopping. If any mappers in the Manila area want me to pick up some GPS/tech
supplies, contact me off-list.
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Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Monday, 15 June, 2009 12:22 AM:
Kudos to Neil for virtually completing the office/residential buildings
here!
Oh, cool. I was going to try that one weekend, but it looks like I was beaten
to it ...
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Date: Tuesday, 16 June, 2009, 5:02 AM
Nice work ianhaylock!
I downloaded the file and my PC crawled!
I suspect you know this one already Maning, but I'm posting it to the forum so
everyone can benefit ...
When you start
maning sambale wrote, On Wednesday, 17 June, 2009 03:10 PM:
I have always been wondering how we tag features that are distinctly
Filipino. Often I encounter a feature that is not the Map Feature
like vulcanizing.
Or maybe we should try to fit them into more generic tags where possible? If
Wait ... there are traffic laws here!? ;-)
Jim
maning sambale wrote, On Thursday, 25 June, 2009 10:46 PM:
In the absence of max_speed data in osmph roads, I'm looking at
putting default values for garmin gps routing. The Philippine law is
not very helpful and is probably obsolete:
Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. wrote, On Sunday, 12 July, 2009 11:23 PM:
A GPS logger with car charger would be preferable, unless they have
battery life of up to two-three days. Please let me know if any are
available. I assume you can use these things with Linux (Ubuntu)?
The GPS to go units
Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. wrote, On Tuesday, 14 July, 2009 06:52 PM:
Thanks Jim, that is very useful! Will definitely check out one of those
converters.
You can probably get them anywhere, but I just found them on that site
recently.
I was thinking of simply collecting all the data and
Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. wrote, On Friday, 17 July, 2009 06:38 PM:
The only 'gotcha' with the GT-31 is that its waypoints dump needs to be
converted to a recognisable format on a windows box. So you'd sidestep that
if you were logging directly to TangoGPS.
That gotcha is definitely a
Ed Garcia wrote, On Friday, 24 July, 2009 08:38 AM:
Eugene, you got my point exactly on what I wish the renderers will do
about low density POIs in an area.
As I understand it, it would theoretically be possible to write/configure your
own rules file for a renderer to display exactly what
Also, in case you missed it, the recent typhoon took out a cable in Taiwan,
which has made the internet even slower than usual in the Philippines.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170126/typhoon_morakot_severs_three_undersea_internet_cables.html
maning sambale wrote, On Thursday,
Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. wrote, On Wednesday, 19 August, 2009 10:16 AM:
Yep, TangoGPS is good stuff! I got the stable version from their
website. Tried it this morning on a short walk.
Taking your laptop for a walk ... might be considered as a bit nerdy by some
... :-)
I am trying to
Hi,
Just got back from UK - flew in last night among all the craziness, but somehow
managed to luck out a taxi.
Anyway, I'm in for the Ortigas or McKinley Hills mappings. Where is CAMANAVA?
As a side note, I'm not sure Carlos Cedan will take us on his tour if we're
mapping it, as surely
Hi All.
Been a bit quiet recently as I went off to UK and France for a couple of weeks.
Just got back in the middle of the typhoon, and have been catching up with work
since then.
Anyway today I had a bit of spare time, and found myself browsing the OSM site.
I found some software called
Sorry guys. I'm pretty booked up for December ... have fun.
Jim
maning sambale wrote, On Friday, 20 November, 2009 10:53 AM:
December 12, 2009
maning
murlwe
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Nice site about cartographic design.
http://cartography2.org/
Came across it just now, but haven't really had a chance to dig into it, as I'm
working right now ... hope you're having fun mapping.
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Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Thursday, 14 January, 2010 12:07 AM:
Keep us posted! Hopefully we can have IGaCoS as the most-mapped
Philippine resort island in OSM after Boracay and Malapascua Islands. :-)
Erm ... was that aimed at me? ... Its purely co-incidental that all my mapping
efforts
Just found a bit of time to give my thoughts on this Road Types thread. A lot
has been discussed, so I'll just give a few of my thoughts on the matter
without directly referencing the posts.
- Yes, roads in the Philippines are not like roads elsewhere! And as such they
don't neatly fit into
He moves pretty fast! :-)
Jim
maning sambale wrote, On Tuesday, 23 February, 2010 01:34 PM:
A video of gps traces around Los Banos and San Pablo mostly by ianlopez
http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/4381308650/
The most updated map of theses towns was mapped purely from gps and
local
Just found this tool - maybe you know about it already. It lists all the child
elements of an area: the Islands, Towns, Villages etc eg for Aklan
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=7878
To get started go to the front page ...
Thought this might be interesting.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/CeBIT-2010-German-police-to-use-open-source-Navit-navigation-944770.html
And in particular, the link to Navit ...
http://www.navit-project.org/
Anyone used this with OSM data?
Jim
Hey, nice Boracay map! ;-)
Just a thought ... shouldn't the purpose of the flyer be to persuade other
people to contribute to OSM? This one does a great job of explaining the
process of getting data into OSM, but doesn't really encourage people to
participate. Shouldn't we be saying something
Is the Export function from OSM not big enough? You can select an area and then
manually increase the resolution until it complains
Jim
Andre Marcelo-Tanner wrote, On Friday, 26 March, 2010 11:35 AM:
What can I use out there to print large hand maps? I tried Maposmatic
but it seems to
Jim Morgan wrote, On Friday, 26 March, 2010 01:55 PM:
Is the Export function from OSM not big enough? You can select an area and
then manually increase the resolution until it complains
eg:
http://tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export?bbox=121.04277,14.54431,121.05921,14.55623scale
maning sambale wrote, On Saturday, 27 March, 2010 11:42 AM:
For comments:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import_Arivac_Bohol
Sounds good. I'd be glad to help out. As the amount of data currently in the
area is negligable, and the amount to be imported is huge,
Ed Garcia wrote, On Tuesday, 06 April, 2010 10:05 PM:
Glad you agree guys! Surprised to see so many +1s in barely an hour
from posting. Okay then, I'll start with San Antonio in Zambales. That
town node is currently so far away from town proper ... it is currently
located on the mountains.
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Sunday, 11 April, 2010 09:55 PM:
That said, I was actually thinking of upgrading Espana-Quezon Avenue to
trunk. :-)
What do other people think?
My 2 centavos: Trunk roads are inter-city / town. Its also to do with the way
people enter/exit the road. So ... NLEX
Totor wrote, On Tuesday, 13 April, 2010 08:23 PM:
This is the script I use ($1 is input file, $2 is output file):
gpsbabel -i nmea -f $1 -x discard,hdop=2,vdop=3,sat=4 -x position,distance=1m
-x transform,wpt=trk,del -x polygon,exclude,file=area.loc -x
transform,trk=wpt,del -o gpx -F $2
On a slightly related note ... I just went to the gpsbabel home page and looked
at the features on the new beta release. Apparently it now supports the Locosys
GT-31 ( the GPStoGo model), which it didn't when I used it last May.
Just thought I'd pass that on.
Jim
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Marloue Pidor wrote, On Wednesday, 21 April, 2010 12:32 AM:
Yes Eugene, my nomination is the same. You and Maning.
Absolutely ... seconded. Thirded?
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maning sambale wrote, On Tuesday, 27 April, 2010 05:33 PM:
However, in many cases it is good editing practice to minimize node
sharing.
snip
4. Natural and landuse ways can share nodes. For example,
natural=water (for lakes) can share nodes with landuse=farm.
I'm never quite sure how I
There's also Everytrail.com, where we got written permission to use the traces.
There's only one for Bacolod though.
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=385787
Jim
maning sambale wrote, On Friday, 14 May, 2010 11:32 AM:
One bacolod mapper gave me a tip of this useful
maning sambale wrote, On Monday, 07 June, 2010 01:39 PM:
I have been reviewing estimated time of arrival (ETA) for garmin gps
routing. I noticed that as Sehested reported, the speed calculation
is over-optimistic. Due to the absence of complete maxspeed data in
PH streets,
I think the
maning sambale wrote, On Thursday, 10 June, 2010 10:41 AM:
Any idea of the cost of GPS data loggers in the Philippines? I'm
looking for the very basic small sized high sensitivity logger with
bluetooth connection you can interface with a smart phone or a laptop.
I've recommended this Hong
The skobbler navigation application for iPhone is now available in the UK and
Ireland. Skobbler uses data from the OpenStreetMap Project (OSM) to display
maps and directions on a user's device and supports the iPhone 3G and 3GS –
it's likely the iPhone 4 will also be supported when it's
maning sambale wrote, On Monday, 21 June, 2010 01:28 PM:
Eugene showed a technique to mark a tile dirty to trigger
re-rendering last manda-ortigas party. Can't remember how.
Anyone on the list can probably help.
First you find out the URL of the tile: In Firefox I just right-click on the
Bart Bartolome wrote, On Monday, 21 June, 2010 04:45 PM:
Can you guys help me with how to get the tracks out of the garmin mobile
xt? Googling didn't help me. ;)
My immediate thought would be GPSbabel ... http://www.gpsbabel.org/
Have you tried this already? It seems to handle most Garmin
Openlayers?
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/
The GeoRSS Marker example maybe?
Jim
Andre Marcelo-Tanner wrote, On Thursday, 24 June, 2010 08:53 AM:
Is there an easy way to link to OSM.org with a waypoint on it? I know
you can do the MLat + MLon in the query string for 1 marker,
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Tuesday, 06 July, 2010 11:57 AM:
To clarify things, the sawtooth detection script is quite naive. It
simply detects if there are at three or more series of nodes where each
pair of adjacent nodes have the same latitude or longitude. This will
also detect any three
I'm not quite sure if this is cool, or very very sad
http://starwars.tomtom.com/voices/index-starwars.php?Lid=4voice=darthvader
The video of Darth Vader in the recording studio is quite funny though ...
Jim
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maning sambale wrote, On Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 04:02 PM:
Note that some have a 99% status already, but, it is good for other
eyeballs to have a look and comment on the actual %age and status.
I was surprised to see Palawan as 99% complete, so I whizzed over there for a
quick look. I'd have
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Thursday, 15 July, 2010 10:06 PM:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coastline_error_checker to generate
closed shapefiles that Mapnik can use. This tool is only run
infrequently and that is why coastlines do not update often in Mapnik.
I see what you mean
Nice idea.
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2010/08/04/calculate-estimated-cab-fares-with-bing-maps/
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I'm liking this ...
http://www.expansys.com.hk/d.aspx?i=202095
GPS, and wifi, and under half the price of the other Android smartphones out
there ...
Haven't managed to find any mentions of people running OSM app on it yet though
...
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A mapping-focused strip from the always entertaining XKCD.
http://xkcd.com/783/
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Hey, someone's been busy in Bacolod. Good job!
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=10.666lon=122.9535zoom=14layers=M
Maybe this has been there for a while, but I only just noticed it ...
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That's a shame. Maybe we should lend them a GPS2go unit?
Jim
Axel Kollmorgen wrote, On Thursday, 09 September, 2010 01:16 AM:
i'm afraid most of the bacolod edits are still illegit. i did a short
analysis (of
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=10.676lon=122.952zoom=12) in josm:
Rally de Leon wrote, On Monday, 11 October, 2010 08:41 AM:
While zoomed in very close, I have mistaken the said flight path for
border or power line lots of times,
I concur. I don't see any benefit in having flight paths beyond the end of the
runway. And in fact I've also found them confusing
Well not really, but it helped
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/11/05/21st-century-war-google-maps-error-leads-to-nicaraguan-invasion/
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I haven't used these at all, and have no idea of the quality, but it seems that
you can get a GPS phone for around USD 100 now.
http://www.shenit.com/cell-phone/gps-phones.html
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Latest testing release of JOSM already has support in the slippymaps plugin.
Just took a look at a bit of Batangas, and the difference is amazing.
Jim
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Wednesday, 24 November, 2010 01:25 AM:
Read it from the blog of Steve Coast, who have joined Microsoft's Bing
Totor wrote, On Sunday, 28 November, 2010 03:26 PM:
I'll still continue to experiment with this, but the tracing from Bing might
be available earlier.
It seems to be available now if you're using the testing version of JOSM. Are
we allowed to use it yet, or is there more legal wrangling to go
Ed Garcia wrote, On Tuesday, 07 December, 2010 03:13 PM:
I successfully added the Imagery plugin and it seems to work (I can see
Imagery item on the main menu) But, I may be missing a step here... I could
not see the Bing Sat option from the Imagery menu items on the main menu.
All I
The small area around Puerto Galera seemed OK as well. Haven't really started
filling it in yet, but the bit I checked fitted in with existing traces and
roads.
Jim
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Wednesday, 08 December, 2010 01:52 PM:
I've checked Cebu, CDO, Legazpi, Iloilo, and Calamba and
Came across this on someone's blog - something I didn't know how to do in JOSM
before. It always used to irritate me if ways were joined together, but this
will definitely make editing them easier.
Jim
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I think the problem is that although it is
This is brilliant, for sure, but it leads me to wonder about the idea of
mapping using an automatic camera suspended (and therefore vertical) from a
balloon or small aeroplane. So no need to rectify.
I've read about some people doing this in France etc, but maybe this is a
viable alternative
For the record ...
Original Message
Subject:Re: Pasig River Ferry
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:14:19 +0800 (SGT)
From: PRRC PRRC pasigla...@yahoo.com.ph
To: Jim Morgan
Hi Jim,
Thank you for sharing this web map. We'll just put our ferry stations there.
Yours
Wow, just back from vacation, and checked the map of this area. Fantastic job
guys!
Has anyone notified the Tourism Authority? I think they'd be impressed. Maybe
they'd even fund future mapping initiatives of tourist areas?
Jim
maning sambale wrote, On Thursday, 23 December, 2010 02:17 PM:
Leonard Soriano wrote, On Wednesday, 29 December, 2010 10:31 PM:
Just this year also, I had several friends who brought their MTB bikes to
Corregidor island using sun cruise. Sometimes it depends who you were able to
talk to.
True ... I think I probably dealt with someone who didn't have the
Happy New Year!
Ed Garcia wrote, On Friday, 31 December, 2010 08:14 PM:
Is there a way to make mapnik display the railway over the highway so it
does not disappear?
Isn't that what the layer= tag does?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Layer
Although it goes on to warn: Some
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Thursday, 06 January, 2011 02:03 AM:
In Potlatch 2 and Merkaartor 0.17, the imagery can be moved by
pressing down the spacebar then dragging. I don't know how to do this
in JOSM but it also has a way to move the background image.
Brilliant. I didn't know you could
Rally de Leon wrote, On Thursday, 06 January, 2011 12:04 PM:
the one i'm using on windows: JOSM (version 3767)
While Bing Imagery GPS traces are shown on the JOSM's background:
click on menu: Imagery -- New offset
Don't seem to have that menu anywhere. I'm using the latest JOSM on Linux.
eric pareja wrote, On Tuesday, 18 January, 2011 09:57 AM:
I'll be going to San Juan, Batangas on Wednesday, Jan. 19 and am
wondering what GPS tracking software for the Nokia N97 would you guys
recommend. I have been using SportsTracker, but it doesn't provide
capability to add waypoints and
Hi all,
Planning a trip to Lake Caliraya in Feb. Will turn my GPS on of course, but the
main idea is to do some trail running with some friends, rather than mapping.
Anyway, we're leaving Makati at around 10am on Saturday morning. Do any of you
seasoned drivers have any opinions as to whether
Hi,
Thanks for the input, I thought there might be someone with local knowledge on
the list!
tutubi wrote, On Tuesday, 25 January, 2011 10:37 AM:
if you're from the north i.e. QC, it's faster via Rizal route. around 2.5
hours from Trinoma
From Trinoma via Calamba, it's 3.5 hrs. SM Calamba
tutubi wrote, On Tuesday, 25 January, 2011 10:37 AM:
total distance from trinoma via rizal is about 90 kms while via calamba is
probably 110 kms. 10am is quite late so expect heavy traffic too from Calamba
to Los Banos
How about, for example, going past the Calumba turn and coming off at San
Just a random thought ...
It struck me that a very useful application for restaurants, bars etc, would be
to put their Lat/Long co-ordinates on a webpage, in a format that would allow
them to be imported into people's GPS units. In the same way as Vcard allows
you to do with addresses.
Any
maning sambale wrote, On Friday, 04 March, 2011 08:06 PM:
This year he is planning to do the Visayas leg. I'm looking for ideas
on how we can once again track the journey and show a webmap. Are
there any GPS tracker available wherein we can directly interface to
an OSM map? The StepJuan
Andre Marcelo-Tanner wrote, On Monday, 07 March, 2011 08:51 PM:
Make sure to test the actual droid phone + app to see how fast it can acquire
a GPS lock and send it with the tweet or else it might be sending tweets
without the GEO info
But this is pretty much what the Globe GPS tracking
On Tuesday, 08 March, 2011 12:19 PM, Michael Cole wrote:
Of course other things went down, eg phones.. Because they were also jammed to
stop the sailors using phones to call ship to ship..
GPS is more and more needed but the ATM's themselves do not have gps units..
Unless they were mobile
Another useful looking tool ...
http://www.opengts.org/
Jim
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Backgrounder on GPS accuracy, dGPS, aGPS etc
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/10/rae_gps_report/
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maning sambale wrote, On Friday, 01 April, 2011 07:02 PM:
To add a bridge, simply split a line/way from the beginning and end
of the bridge. Then add a tag bridge=yes to the newly created way.
Make sure to add the correct name of the bridge.
You may also want to adjust the layers,
I just found the answer to this question and thought I'd share it because its
useful ...
If you want to put a marker on a map, just take the normal URL from the
Permalink eg.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.534892lon=121.052821zoom=18layers=M
And add the letter 'm' in front of the lat
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Java Midlet to use OpenStreetMap data on a J2ME ready Mobile. Displays a moving
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There is Navigation support for car drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians plus
many more ...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpsmid/
maning sambale wrote, On Tuesday, 19 April, 2011 08:56 PM:
I've started adding small updates around Dumaguete downtown area. I
have to say that basic roads around downtown is complete.
http://osm.org/go/4nuN_4ab
Thanks to previous contributors.
Hah. I went there about a month ago. Nice
Just to play devil's advocate here ... I guess there's also a case for marking
a city, village, barangay as the exact geometric centre of the area. That would
certainly make sense at the lower zoom levels.
Maybe some renderers already do this? In which case, as long as the boundary
area is
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