Re: [talk-ph] planned new imagery for Eastern Bulacan area for mapwarper and openstreetmap

2010-01-15 Thread maning sambale
Another option is to crowdsource the rectification using mapwarper: http://warper.geothings.net/ But this becomes a chicken and egg problem, some OSM roads along Bulacan area may not be a reliable ground control points. I will slice the whole image into slices with small overlaps. On Fri, Jan

[talk-ph] Google Maps are generally surprisingly inaccurate

2010-01-15 Thread riber101-osm
Hi fellow OSM mappers! As a newbie you might wonder why to invest your effort in OSM rather than Google Maps that seems to be present everywhere. Well, Google currently have better general coverage than OSM here in the Philippines. Try to compare Laoag City

Re: [talk-ph] Google Maps are generally surprisingly inaccurate

2010-01-15 Thread maning sambale
:) Like your post, will respond to some of them later. For now, I would like to report that I am rectifying some imagery along Eastern Bulacan. This will greatly expand our mapping beyond these areas. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, riber101-...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi fellow OSM mappers! As a

[talk-ph] Fwd: osm-ph garmin gps pre-release 20100116

2010-01-15 Thread maning sambale
osm-ph garmin gps pre-release 20100116 hi, The pre-release OSM-PH Garmin Map is now available.  As a volunteer pre-release tester, you are encouraged to download and test the map. Before you download, please remove and create a backup of previous OSM-PH map. Improvements so far:  - a new style