On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Tom Lancaster <tom at grubbyconsulting.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Ivan Garcia <capiscuas at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Tom, >> >> great job you guys with Hanoi and Sapa (maybe more others too). One of the >> requisites to apply for the donated GPS from OSM is to have a user account >> that has edited many times in OSM, I guess that you guys, have one, would >> you mind to apply for it and donate to HCMC group? >> > > I have just done so. Fingers crossed. > > Incidentally, I took a look at the osm Saigon map and there's been a > lot of progress already since I last visited. So much so that I've > switched newhanoian's sister site, http://so-saigon.xemzi.com to use > openstreetmap tiles, too. > > If we get a free GPS we'd be very happy to pass it on to someone who > pledged to put some work into the Saigon map. > >> I'm not currently in Vietnam but I know the HCMC community very well and I >> also the person most interested to do this kind of job of tracking with the >> GPS to be uploaded later to OSM. > > Do you mean you know the person, or you are the person? This is what I am doing in Japan and I am planing to do the same thing ( for example, a database for location hunters). http://loc.alize.us/#/user:%e7%8b%ac%e8%87%aa%e5%8f%88%e4%bd%95%e5%a6%a8/geo:35.690206,139.593658,11,m/
I will do it when I return to Vietnam. However, I heard that GPS receivers in Vietnam may get 9m of error in minimum. Is that right? By the way, anyone in the list is involving with this? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Vietnam -- Best Regards, Nguyen Hung Vu [aka: NVH] ( in Vietnamese: Nguy?n V? H?ng ) vuhung16plus{[email protected] , YIM: vuhung16 , Skype: vuhung16dg A brief profile: http://www.hn.is.uec.ac.jp/~vuhung/Nguyen.Vu.Hung.html
