On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus at gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Why would VN be any different than another point on the globe? For non-military use the US GPS system only has 10m accuracy. In practice (in my experience) the accuracy appears to be somewhat better than that. > > By the way, anyone in the list is involving with this? > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Vietnam Yes, I've made a couple of edits. Regards, Tom > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines > _______________________________________________ > HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
