Dear Maning, Many thanks for your instructive and useful answer. I will contact the relevant provinces and municipalities/cities and see if I have any luck.
Best, Snorre D. Øverbø tirsdag 10. april 2012 skrev maning sambale følgende: > Dear Snorre, > > The original provincial boundaries were based on Namria's 1:250K > topographic maps this is very coarse and useful only to provide an > overview of the province. At larger scales (or higher zoom levels in > webmapping parlance), this is very inaccurate. > > There is also a free dataset of administrative boundaries (from region > to barangay) available at philgis.org [0] which is also the same data > from GADM [1]. Based on my personal/anecdotal discussions with > several people, this data also came from NAMRIA. This is a very good > dataset but we cannot import it in OSM due to the license issues at > the same time, we also think that it is also inaccurate at the > municipal and brgy level [2]. > > You are of course welcome to use this data in conjunction with OSM's > dataset to compose your maps in any GIS software. > > The best way to get administrative boundaries is to request these data > to the concerned local government unit (provincial and municipality). > We can easily import them once explicit permission is secured. > > [0] http://philgis.org > [1] http://www.gadm.org/ > [2] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2011-May/003255.html > > PS. Glad to know western Mindanao is getting more OSM love. Keep on > mapping! > > 2012/4/10 "Snorre D. Øverbø" <sno...@overbo.no <javascript:;>>: > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I'm looking at the basic OSM map, and I see that it has (more og less > > complete?) administrative boundaries on province level. > > It looks like the dataprovider for the provincial boundaries are NAMRIA, > The > > National Mapping and Resource Information Authority, (tag Source=NAMRIA > > topo) > > > > My interest is primarily Western Mindanao, and I as far as I can see, OSM > > lacks data on administrative boundaries below province level, e.g. > > municipaiity and barangay there. Maybe thats the case in for the rest of > the > > Philippines too? > > > > It would have been really cool if we could add more administrative > > boundaries in OSM. Could it in some way be possible to have NAMRIA > provide > > OSM with administrative boundary data? Do you have knowledge on their > policy > > on distributing map data? National mapping authorities in many european > > countries have made such content free and reuseable for all.(open access) > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > Snorre D. Øverbø > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk-ph mailing list > > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org <javascript:;> > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ >
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