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? Regards, Tom > > Best Regards. > Ivan Garcia. > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Tom Lancaster <tom at grubbyconsulting.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Ivan Garcia <capiscuas at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi everybody, for those that still doesn't know about >> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/ (OSM) I would explain it as a Wikipedia of >> > Maps, a collaboritve project started only 4 years ago and with a huge >> > community and volunteers geolocating until cover the last corner of the >> > world. >> > >> > In vietnam OSM it doesn't cover too much, Hanoi is the city most >> > geolocalized. IMHO this project very important because nowadays GIS >> > services >> > are growing up and it helps the IT sector in Vietnam to create their own >> > GIS >> > sites and programs without having to pay license oversea to Microsoft >> > VE, >> > Google Maps,etc >> > >> > An example of a vietnamese case is this site: >> > http://newhanoian.xemzi.com/venue/category/28/NGOs-Charities#1/28 , >> > allowing >> > you to search and localize Services in Hanoi. >> >> Hey, that's my site! >> >> I think I should explain why we decided to use OSM as it's relevant to >> this list. For a couple of years we had been using the google >> satellite map with our own hand-drawn layers showing streets and >> street names. We thought it would only be a matter of time before >> Google published a great map of Hanoi. What happened instead was that >> Google has an unfinished map of Hanoi and, I'm guessing because the >> Hanoi market is not important enough, they decided to enlist "the >> community " to finish it for them. That, for us, was the last straw - >> a giant corporation asking the public to contribute their labor to >> building Google's Intellectual Property stash. Any effort that we >> would have put into completing the Gmap would have belonged to Google. >> By contrast OSM belongs to everyone, being licensed according to a >> Creative Commons license. >> >> Since we decided to use OSM we've invested a lot of time in bringing >> the Hanoi map up to a usable standard, by adding street names and >> streets (using the satellite view in the OSM editor) and by riding >> around Hanoi with GPS devices making traces that we used to add new >> ways (streets). >> >> We have GPS data on Sapa which we will convert to OSM soon, too. >> >> The missing "elephant in the room" is the Saigon map. Being based in >> Hanoi it's difficult for us to work on this, so I encourage anyone who >> spends time there to work on it, for the benefit of everyone. >> >> I just launched a new feature, btw, which allows you to search by >> location - you can search near to pre-defined points, or define your >> own search points (like "my house," "my office," etc.). You can see it >> at http://newhanoian.xemzi.com/entity/advanced_search >> >> Our database is far from complete, but anyone can add to it if they >> find missing places, at http://newhanoian.xemzi.com/venue/add >> >> Yes, any data you enter will belong to us, but you will always be >> credited for entering it, and you will gain influence in the new >> hanoian community by entering stuff. >> >> > >> > Anyway, the reason of this email is to encourage the people that has >> > already >> > participated editing the Maps of OSM to get a free GPS device from them. >> > Is very easy, just go to this site and apply. >> > http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/gpstogo/ >> >> Interesting, thanks Ivan. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tom >> > >> > Best Regards to everybody and keep geolocating :-) >> > >> > Ivan Garcia >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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/ >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
