Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love Part 2

2008-10-16 Thread maning sambale
Hi, A number of people have responded to our OSM love appeal. Thank you for your contributions! As result were expanding our coverage in the noname layer :) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.589lon=121.0679zoom=12layers=000BFTF You can continue remote editing with Yahoo! cheers, maning On

[OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love Part 2

2008-09-22 Thread maning sambale
Hi, Just got the news today from an OSM mapper that Metro Manila Philippines is now in Google Mapmaker See this: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=10ll=14.555339,121.05835spn=0.295086,0.31826z=12 I have to admit that it is impressive in many parts (but not as detailed as where I am currently

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-16 Thread John McKerrell
On 15 Jul 2008, at 02:15, maning sambale wrote: The Cloudmade nonames tiles are available world wide now. (You need to specifically select the correct layer, if the correct layer param isn't in the url). This is cool! Might be better to integrate with openstreetbugs so non-members

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-16 Thread John McKerrell
On 16 Jul 2008, at 10:03, John McKerrell wrote: On 15 Jul 2008, at 02:15, maning sambale wrote: The Cloudmade nonames tiles are available world wide now. (You need to specifically select the correct layer, if the correct layer param isn't in the url). This is cool! Might be better to

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-16 Thread Shaun McDonald
John McKerrell wrote: [..] I realised the fact that I missed the edit link so much is because my own map page that I normally use has one, so I've now added the no names layer to it: http://johnmckerrell.com/map/ Select Mapnik then click on the little arrow and select Highlighted.

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM, John McKerrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jul 2008, at 02:15, maning sambale wrote: The Cloudmade nonames tiles are available world wide now. (You need to specifically select the correct layer, if the correct layer param isn't in the url). This is

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-15 Thread Philip Shipley
I have started this section on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo Many of the suggestions require ground knowledge. Reading the section pointed to above, it states Roads are unnamed, so the highway=road tag should be used,

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-15 Thread Shaun McDonald
Philip Shipley wrote: I have started this section on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo%21_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo Many of the suggestions

[OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Thread maning sambale
Hi, Metro Manila in the Philippines is getting more and more updated every week in OSM. After more than 1.5 years of contributing, we have made the Metropolis expand coverage from this [1] to this [2]. ~ 50 contributors have added pois, roads, etc. using mostly Yahoo! imagery and very few

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Thread Shaun McDonald
maning sambale wrote: [...] 3. add a fixme tag. Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. Shaun ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Thread John McKerrell
On 14 Jul 2008, at 16:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: maning sambale wrote: [...] 3. add a fixme tag. Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. Shaun, do the no-name tile sets highlight name=FIXME as well

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:54 PM, John McKerrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun, do the no-name tile sets highlight name=FIXME as well as empty/ missing 'name' tags? No. And there's many other variations on the putting-garbage-in-the-name-tag :-) Also are those tiles available

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Thread Shaun McDonald
John McKerrell wrote: On 14 Jul 2008, at 16:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: maning sambale wrote: [...] 3. add a fixme tag. Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. Shaun, do the

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Thread maning sambale
Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? Yes or this tag. I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. It can be but Yahoo is currently our best option for now. Any specific instance on problems with yahoo you can illustrate so we can avoid them? The