[talk-ph] Rosario to Urdaneta section of TPLEx

2014-12-24 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi Maning, I added the newly opened lane section of TPLEx based on gps tracks that I gathered this morning. The track is for the northbound lane only. Can you help me make a parallel way for the southbound lane? Also, there is an older way attached from the viaduct at the former end of TPLEx.

Re: [talk-ph] Rosario to Urdaneta section of TPLEx

2014-12-24 Thread Ed Garcia
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Maning, I added the newly opened lane section of TPLEx based on gps tracks that I gathered this morning. The track is for the northbound lane only. Can you help me make a parallel way for the southbound lane? Also

Re: [talk-ph] Rosario to Urdaneta section of TPLEx

2014-12-24 Thread Ed Garcia
and over major intersections. I will try to correct them today. ed On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Ervin, I simply gathered the tracks while I was going through SCTEX (Mabalacat) up to the junction the meets with the national highway between Urdaneta

Re: [talk-ph] Rosario to Urdaneta section of TPLEx

2014-12-24 Thread Ed Garcia
. Thanks! Ervin Malicdem for Schadow1 Expeditions a Filipino must not be a stranger to his own motherland. http://www.s1expeditions.com On Dec 25, 2014 8:39 AM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Ervin, I saw the changes you did to the TPLEX ... thanks. trace is correct. However

Re: [talk-ph] Yet another WebGL 3-D OSM map

2013-09-04 Thread Ed Garcia
is the sluggish part but once they're rendered, the rendering is actually quite fast. Eugene On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. My Firefox browser on Ubuntu does not support WebGL. Anything I need to do? is it just a plug in or do I need to upgrade

Re: [talk-ph] Yet another WebGL 3-D OSM map

2013-09-03 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi. My Firefox browser on Ubuntu does not support WebGL. Anything I need to do? is it just a plug in or do I need to upgrade the whole system? Thanks! On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:10 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Cool! Thanks for this we found an error in the building

Re: [talk-ph] kaybiang tunnel (new road)

2013-07-28 Thread Ed Garcia
. http://www.s1expeditions.com On Jul 28, 2013 12:34 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Great! Thanks Ervin! Looking at the track data that you added, I realized it was just a very short distance to the bridge and junction to the old road!! missed it by a few hundred meters na lang pala

[talk-ph] kaybiang tunnel (new road)

2013-07-25 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi Maning, I just came from the Kaybiang tunnel (Ternate - Nasugbu road) today and tracked the new road ... I was surprised that the roads on openstreetmap and also that on Google do not yet show what is apparently the newly built and nicely concreted road southeast of Sta Mercedes. What they

Re: [talk-ph] Worldwide node density map

2013-06-30 Thread Ed Garcia
Wow!!! Amazing. On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: I got curious with why the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador uniformly looks brighter than the Philippines and I discovered that most of the nodes there belong to the province's hundreds

Re: [talk-ph] mapping the EDSA bus bays

2012-12-20 Thread Ed Garcia
Hahahaha ... truly ROTFL May need to map EDSA as one big, long parking lot too. :) ed On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: tutubi wrote, On Wednesday, 19 December, 2012 08:58 PM: anyone mapping the new edsa bus bays with labels for bus A and B? will update

Re: [talk-ph] New Bing Imagery

2012-11-22 Thread Ed Garcia
I was viewing satellite imagery of the Angat, Bulacan area as I was preparing for a trip to GK Enchanted Farm tomorrow. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Bing imagery in JOSM for the said area was better (cloudless, hi-res) than Google Maps satellite or even Google Earth! Amazing On Thu,

Re: [talk-ph] Wiki Loves Monuments needs some mapping help

2012-04-10 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi Eugene, Usually, at WaypointsDotPH, we get the coordinates and photos from contributors who have been to the POIs. I was thinking, that if this will be a photo contest, then photographers of uncharted monuments might keep the location information while the contest is going on so others may

Re: [talk-ph] Wiki Loves Monuments needs some mapping help

2012-04-10 Thread Ed Garcia
Nice! That's a very good tip. Thanks Jim On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Ed Garcia wrote, On Tuesday, 10 April, 2012 02:37 PM: Anyway, I have been locating many of these sites lately by using combined panoramio, google earth, wikimapia. Latest ones

Re: [talk-ph] Wiki Loves Monuments needs some mapping help

2012-04-10 Thread Ed Garcia
and using the usual geo-research methodologies (OSM, Google, Panoramio, Wikimapia, WaypointsDotPH, etc.) Eugene On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Nice! That's a very good tip. Thanks Jim On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jim Morgan j

Re: [talk-ph] Updated OSMPH Imagery Coverage Map

2012-03-19 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi Eugene, Just wondering what these straight lines near Alaminos and Bani are for? are they also imagery outlines? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=16.1869lon=119.9511zoom=12layers=M :) On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, Based on the

Re: [talk-ph] Costa Concordia on OSM

2012-01-19 Thread Ed Garcia
+1 on the slogan. :) On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Thursday, 19 January, 2012 10:29 PM: Well, somebody thought that the ship would remain it its half-sunk state for quite some time and thus mapped it on OpenStreetMap:

Re: [talk-ph] cheap and reliable field data collection equipment

2012-01-18 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi, We have tested our Galaxy Y on one of our waypoint trips and it basically delivered all the requirements below nicely. Track accuracy and resolution (using My Tracks) was impressive. Camera shots were of acceptable quality (you wont hate it but it is not a wow either). Geotagging photos by

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: towns and inter-town roads

2011-12-16 Thread Ed Garcia
hahaha, true! the opinions would stem from how they are likely to interpret the - (dash). If they take it to mean as to as in, Los Banos to Calamba, then we will have to be direction sensitive here ... mid-way renaming may be a good move. Though, normally, afaik, the direction of National

Re: [talk-ph] Mapping buildings in Marikina

2011-09-23 Thread Ed Garcia
Grabe!! such detail Maning, what are the tools here? Potlatch? JOSM? Bing? what do you recommend? I will try to work on those few blocks around my house. :) On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:25 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: This is where I'm more proud of:

Re: [talk-ph] Grande Island Resort is using OSM

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Garcia
I suggest adding the ferry route from the terminal at the Waterfront road to the Island so that it can be used by the routing services if one requests a route from Manila to the Island. I have just added the resort to waypointsdotph: http://waypoints.ph/vmap.php?wpt=rr0082 If a ferry route is

Re: [talk-ph] MapOSMatic

2011-03-29 Thread Ed Garcia
Wow! Way COL! Fantastic! On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Just fantastic http://maposmatic.org/ Makes a printable map with reference squares and an index from a quick drag on the OSM map. PDF, SVG and PNG formats. Wow. Also found this piece

Re: [talk-ph] Quirino Bridge, Banaoang, Santa, Ilocos Sur

2011-02-21 Thread Ed Garcia
I took a look at it and I noticed two things: 1. That old way which is supposed to be a bridge is not tagged as bridge. Maybe the routine algo regards a highway without a bridge as a faster route? 2. The new bridge has a motorroad:no tag while the old highway has only got the highway:trunk

Re: [talk-ph] RFC re-tag Halsema Highway from primary to trunk

2011-02-08 Thread Ed Garcia
browsing my off-line map and noticed pan-philippine highway and sometimes it's maharlika somewhere near camarines norte On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Recalling

Re: [talk-ph] RFC re-tag Halsema Highway from primary to trunk

2011-01-31 Thread Ed Garcia
My two centavos worth ... (from reading various opinions on the subject) ... If the road crosses provinces and IS the main road of choice for travelling from one province to another, I would agree tagging it as trunk. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, maning sambale

[talk-ph] railway being shadowed by trunk highway on mapnik

2010-12-31 Thread Ed Garcia
Hello, I was looking at the Malolos Bulacan area and noticed that, at wide zoom levels, the railway running along Mcarthur highway disappears and only the highway is shown. please see http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.8419lon=120.8506zoom=14layers=M For a moment there, I thought that the

Re: [talk-ph] RA 10067 Tubbataha Reefs National Park (TRNP) Act of 2009 has coordinates of the park's boundaries

2010-12-19 Thread Ed Garcia
I have friend who worked on the PRS92 project several years ago. According to him, there is very little difference between Luzon Datium and PRS92 datum. For our intents and purposes on OSM and waypointsdotph, the difference would be negligible. What I did then to convert data that is coming in

Re: [talk-ph] Historical meakers (post cavite mmapping)

2010-09-13 Thread Ed Garcia
Perhaps the waypoint categorizations done at waypointsdotph can be useful here ... Like, we actually have a classification on historical landmarks as follows: http://waypoints.ph/gallery_gen.php?cat=NHL I can easily modify it or add a category for waypoints with historical markers. Would this

Re: [talk-ph] mangroves, tidal lands

2010-07-09 Thread Ed Garcia
emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com: A proposed water_cover tagging: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_cover On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:39 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Can I have your

[talk-ph] mangroves, tidal lands

2010-07-08 Thread Ed Garcia
Can I have your opinion on this, guys? it is about coastal mangrove areas. It is suggested, and I agree, to map mangrove areas as inland (inside the coastline). But I encountered the mangrove areas at Alburquerque, Bohol and the mangroves (seen on wms Lansat) are currently lying on the ocean

[talk-ph] Correcting sawtooth coastlines, plotting white beaches

2010-07-07 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi, While I was correcting coastlines from various islands using Landsat as reference, I encountered several coastal areas that obviously had white beaches ... Some are very white! I am tempted and thinking of adding them as natural:beach as I encounter them. Question: Are beaches inland

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-06 Thread Ed Garcia
Hehe ... nope I am not trying to defeat the script, but am trying to stop it from misdetecting an already cleaned up coastal area. I have cleaned up the whole of Marinduque a couple of weeks ago and curiously saw the script reporting a sawtoothed section on the northern coastline. I checked it

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-05 Thread Ed Garcia
at 9:20 AM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! amazing ... how do you detect sawtoothness? can you teach this at the skillshare? OSM genius ka talaga! Anyway, I take note of the sawtooth patterns between Lucena and Pagbilao Quezon ... I have corrected this already but the sawtooth

Re: [talk-ph] motorways leading to nowhere?

2010-06-23 Thread Ed Garcia
That's a very good definition ... I agree it is *not* a motorway. That highway was made so that it serves as a bypass road for the towns of Orion, Pilar, Abucay, Balanga, etc to go straight to Mariveles. I passed this road several times before when I was mapping POIs at Mariveles and I really

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-06-04 Thread Ed Garcia
Help! as I was going around Mindoro doing coastline edits, I encountered unfamiliar nodes just about south of Mamburao. The nodes appear as big white squares in JOSM, different from the usual small yellow square nodes. What are they? Did not want to touch them as they are not the usual nodes

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-06-04 Thread Ed Garcia
. Those are coastline nodes with tags. The tags are: created_by:srtm_coastline natural:coastline note: Original way #418062 source:SRTM natural:coastline should be given tags in ways and not nodes. You can delete them. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-05-25 Thread Ed Garcia
This is via JOSM/WMS Landsat, right? Just the other week, I have done some Agusan coastlines near Cabadbaran City. Ok, I will take Mindoro now ... cheers On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:10 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: The first proposed priority is to focus coastline

Re: [talk-ph] more routing questions ...

2010-05-05 Thread Ed Garcia
Thanks Maning ... I got so excited that it can route across islands as long as the ferry routes are well linked ... I am now adding the RoRo routes along the SRNH so hopefully it can reach as far down south as possible. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:24 PM, maning sambale

[talk-ph] more routing questions ...

2010-05-04 Thread Ed Garcia
Hello Guys, I have been working on enhancing the routes services of waypointsdotph and improving the links to the OSM routing services. Been checking and correcting way connections at OSM as well. I need your help in correcting (or teaching me how to correct) way connections so that it routes

Re: [talk-ph] Need help in analyzing the changesets from a user

2010-04-18 Thread Ed Garcia
just wondering ... is there a way, or, I hope there is a way where the roads and POIs can be locked by qualified or certified mappers. Where certain edits (especially for changes to already correct entities in the map) can only be done by such mappers? Or maybe where such mappers can easily

Re: [talk-ph] What denomination tag do we use for Catholic churches?

2010-04-08 Thread Ed Garcia
Pardon my ignorance ... just curious ... are there other catholics that are non-roman? On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:35 PM, ianlopez ian_lopez_1...@yahoo.com wrote: +1 for roman_catholic, since it is specific. Maybe we should tag shrines around the Mount Banahaw area as such (including the peak,

[talk-ph] Node position for towns

2010-04-06 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi all. I have partially brought this subject up with Maning some time ago and would just like bring it up again on the forum ... I propose to make it standard to position town nodes as near as possible to the municipal hall of the towns. This makes for better and easier navigation when using

Re: [talk-ph] Ready for the OSM-PH Marikina Mapping Party

2010-03-19 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi all Marikina mappers, So sorry, something important came up, I will not be able to make it on the 9am gathering at Bluewave mall. I might just be able to catch up with some of you while gathering POIs at around 11am but I would more surely be there at SM Marikina during the data editing and

Re: [talk-ph] [waypointsdotph] OSM-PH Marikina Mapping Party

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi All, I would definitely like to join and would like to contribute by directly seeking out the locations of attraction sites or popular places in Marikina so they can be added to OSM and the vicinity maps of WaypointsDotPH. These are places like Good Eats, theme parks, museums, heritage

[talk-ph] Fwd: [waypointsdotph] Red Cross Needs your help

2009-09-28 Thread Ed Garcia
message sent to waypointsdotph ... forwarding it to you guys as maybe even if you can not get the coordinates via GPS, if you know of such evacuation centers, maybe you can approximate the coordinates from maps or from our own OSM data. ed -- Forwarded message -- From:

Re: [talk-ph] Province place nodes

2009-09-13 Thread Ed Garcia
I can help a bit btw, where is the best ppoint to place the node? At the provincial capitol (if capitol location is known)? m or at the geographic center of the province? On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:48 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: I can try but not until weekend. Hope

Re: [talk-ph] http://roadguide.ph/forums/showthread.php?t=937

2009-08-16 Thread Ed Garcia
I remember a bulk update a while back where POIs from roadguide were added to OSM. Funny thing is, as I have pointed out to Maning then, that update included several POIs which originally came from contributors of waypoints.ph where it also included some of my easter eggs and the POIs were given

Re: [talk-ph] NLEX routing errors (was Fwd: Candaba Viaduct span)

2009-06-14 Thread Ed Garcia
right. :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:32 PM Subject: Candaba Viaduct span To: Maning Sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com Cc: rally rall...@gmail.com noticed that the southbound lane of NLEX is actually oneway

Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 11, Issue 12

2009-06-09 Thread Ed Garcia
Yes, too coarse ... it is accurate enough in positioning, but coarse. It is what I used for waypoints.ph vicinity maps. It has more islands and islets though than the current OSM coastlines. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Not entirely

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-07 Thread Ed Garcia
Maning, Wow, you are so well-oriented in how and where to look for data and images! Let's have that tutorial-over-beer, (or is that beer-over-tutorial) session na nga! I want to learn how these all fit into JOSM editing. thanks! On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:57 AM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] RFC: importing Palawan roads

2009-06-04 Thread Ed Garcia
Ako, I would go for uploading it as GPX. this way mappers, local or non-local can use it whether they are seriously mapping Palawan or just practicing to map on OSM. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Request for Comments (RFC) for importing

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-03 Thread Ed Garcia
This may not be a mapping party, but more of a mapping challenge ... I have long wondered if anybody will be interested in mapping the actual shores of Caliraya and Lumot lakes by GPS on a boat or kayak. We can hire maybe 2 or 3 boats to go around the lake along the shore then take tracklogs.

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-03 Thread Ed Garcia
by kayak (a marathon of sorts). btw, what is the best way to give credits to OSM contributors for contributing such noteworthy data? On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:16 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Can this be done in a day? Game ako. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ed Garcia

Re: [talk-ph] 1st OpenStreetMap Philippines Mapping Party Success!

2009-05-17 Thread Ed Garcia
of the mapping rig (wifi antenna) or energy booster for the mappers? :) On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: The earlier email did not get through as it had an attachment larger than 40K. So here is the same photo as a link ... http://edpgarcia.multiply.com

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Ed Garcia
Guys, just merging the thoughts on qualifying POIs ... how about, in addition to a POI having a street level entrance, we consider if the POI has prominent building signage? Some POIs may be inside a building but have very visible signage outside or in front of the building that serve as very

Re: [talk-ph] Reviving plan(s) for Tagaytay Mapping party

2009-04-30 Thread Ed Garcia
Hi, I will try my best to clear my schedules on the morning of May 16 so I can at least meet with you guys in person. Might not be able to map much as I will be on my way to Batangas by noon. Where is our meeting place? thanks ed On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:53 PM, maning sambale

[talk-ph] Tags for Resorts

2009-04-14 Thread Ed Garcia
Hello all, Just wanted to ask what is the standard tag that we are using for Resorts? I was studying the Boracay area and found two tags: tourism:guest_house and tourism:chalet What standard are we to adapt? I would like to put in many resorts from my collection of GPS waypoints. Thanks! ed

Re: [talk-ph] Is Mapnik rendering only on wednesdays?

2009-03-01 Thread Ed Garcia
:( On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Was surprised to see Mapnik updated on a non-wednesday. I just added provincial roads in the Manaoag - Mangaldan Pangasinan area last night and was surprised to see it on the Mapnik layers this morning

Re: [talk-ph] now available google mapmaker API

2009-02-12 Thread Ed Garcia
Nice! yup sexy is the word ... But, are my eyes playing tricks on me? ... I can swear I saw an openstreetmap iframe displayed on the page when I opened it earlier, then, when I visited again an hour later, OSM is not there anymore? On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Michael Cole

Re: [talk-ph] testing new OSM-Philippines Garmin routable (20090128)

2009-02-11 Thread Ed Garcia
Thanks for this Maning ... will of course be more than happy to help test it But, first, how do I get this .img file into mapsource then to my garmin 276C? My problem is, the SD card for the 276C is a garmin specific (non-generic) card. And so, I could not put the .img file via a card reader

Re: [talk-ph] Mapnik weekly rerendering

2009-02-10 Thread Ed Garcia
is more prone going haywire if there are small glitches in the coastline but is more uptodate. Mike At 04:13 PM 6/02/2009, Ed Garcia wrote: Oh my! What happened to the coastline of Zambales!? I noticed many new roads added to Castillejos and San Antonio but ... the coastline

Re: [talk-ph] need help in updating an area

2009-02-10 Thread Ed Garcia
hmmm... I hear of this landsat every now and then but have no idea how to view it ... it is not in JOSM as I know it. How does one use it? Thanks On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:14 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks to some who helped. The general area seems to be updated

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up

2009-01-16 Thread Ed Garcia
hehehe me too! particularly where beer is involved :) Would just love to meet you guys and talk shop. I would of course prefer near Marikina but Ortigas would be fine too. I like weekdays too (no crowds) but Feb 7 is fine too. Maning, when you say KKB, do you mean Kaniya-Kaniyang bayad? or

Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread Ed Garcia
Regarding resorts listed at waypointsdotph ... no problem ... I will have those resorts that have coordinates added to OSM. Btw, what tag will we use for resorts? will we simply use Hotel? As to contact numbers. You can use the ones listed on the website. I can give Maning the list. Though I

[talk-ph] How to reply to a thread from a digest

2008-11-20 Thread Ed Garcia
I have been receiving my talk-ph mail as a digest. Now can anyone teach me how do I reply to a particular topic so it gets listed as a sub-thread of that topic and not as a new thread? thanks ed -- website administrator: - www.waypoints.ph - reeflife.eppgarcia.com PADI Divemaster #491048