Re: [talk-ph] Quezon City mapping: districts

2016-05-28 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I don't know if QC's districts have ever been defined. As far as I can tell, they are general areas and there is no hard line delineating these districts. On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Jherome Miguel wrote: > Quezon City's political map on OpenStreetMap is mostly

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 304

2016-05-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Another weekly roundup of news from the global OSM community. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jinal Foflia Date: Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:18 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 304 To: t...@openstreetmap.org The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #304, is now

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM 303 is online in English

2016-05-15 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Last week's roundup of OSM news from all over the world. -- Forwarded message -- From: Manfred A. Reiter Date: Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:20 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM 303 is online in English To: Talk Openstreetmap , OpenStreetMap

[talk-ph] Reminder for proposals and scholarship applications for SOTM 2016

2016-05-14 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Reminder: If any of you are interested in attending and participating at State of the Map 2016 in Brussels, Belgium, please see the following blog posts: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/04/19/propose-your-session-to-state-of-the-map-2016/

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 302

2016-05-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
More weekly roundup of OSM news and updates. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jinal Foflia Date: Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:50 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 302 To: t...@openstreetmap.org The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #302, is now available online in

Re: [talk-ph] areas of mangrove

2016-04-30 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi David, Mangroves and wetlands have been discussed here in 2009 and 2010 but no definite convention or guidelines was agreed upon. Please see the following two threads for the previous discussions: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-April/000695.html

[talk-ph] UP Village+ Mapping Party on April 30, 2016

2016-04-27 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everyone, It's been quite a while since we last had a (Field) Mapping Party so if you are free and in Metro Manila this coming Saturday, please feel free to join us improve and make the map more complete! Event details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UP_Village%2B_Mapping_Party

[talk-ph] FOSS4G-PH Workshop on April 22, 2016

2016-04-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, There will be a FOSS4G-PH Workshop event in UP Diliman this Friday, April 22, 2016. This is an opportunity to learn about various free and open source geospatial software like QGIS, GeoPython, GeoPandas (what's with the animals?), LeafletJS, TurfJS, as well as an Introduction to OSM

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 298

2016-04-10 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's last week's roundup of OSM news and tidbits from around the world. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jinal Foflia Date: Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:25 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 298 To: t...@openstreetmap.org The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 294

2016-03-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Another weekly dose of news and tidbits from around the OSM world. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jinal Foflia Date: Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:57 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 294 To: t...@openstreetmap.org The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #294, is

[talk-ph] HOT Indonesia and university partnerships

2016-03-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
HOT Indonesia seems to be having success in partnering with universities to teach students how to map and use OSM data especially for local DRRM. What activities do you think we can emulate?

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 293

2016-03-03 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Another weekly dose of news and tidbits from around the OSM world. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jinal Foflia Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:52 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] WeeklyOSM 293 To: t...@openstreetmap.org The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 293, is

Re: [talk-ph] OSMPH chatroom

2016-02-29 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
t; > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Rally, >> >> It seems I cannot invite myself? >> >> ~Eugene >> >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Rally de Leon <rall...@gmail.

Re: [talk-ph] OSMPH chatroom

2016-02-29 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Dear Rally, It seems I cannot invite myself? ~Eugene On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Rally de Leon wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to invite you to OSMPH chatroom osmph.slack.com > This is meant to replace our earlier experimental Discord. > > It is open to public and

[talk-ph] Tagging of reefs, beaches, and shoals

2016-02-25 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi all, There has been a recent improvement in the default OSM rendering for reefs, beaches, and shoals. Read all about it here: http://blog.imagico.de/reefs-and-beaches-in-the-openstreetmap-standard-style/ Example of the new reef rendering in Apo Reef National Park:

Re: [talk-ph] 7500 and counting.

2016-02-22 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
at 5:17 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Census Atlas provided one criterion for the definition of an island: > it has to be above water at high tide. > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Jim Morgan <j...@datalude.com> wrote: > >> On Saturda

[talk-ph] Massive deletion of nodes?

2016-02-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I was checking out the OSM Philippines statistics page from Pascal Neis and I noticed that almost 100,000 nodes were deleted last Friday, Feb 19. Does anybody know what happened? I'm worried if this is vandalism. http://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries=Philippines ~Eugene

Re: [talk-ph] 7500 and counting.

2016-02-20 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
The Census Atlas provided one criterion for the definition of an island: it has to be above water at high tide. On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Jim Morgan <j...@datalude.com> wrote: > On Saturday, 20 February, 2016 09:32 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > >> According

Re: [talk-ph] 7500 and counting.

2016-02-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
According to the latest news, there are now "exactly" 7,641 islands. This is stated by the so-called Philippine Islands Measurements Project of NAMRIA. (Really unfortunate acronym: PIMP. People, when when creating multi-word names, make sure that the acronym is palatable!)

Re: [talk-ph] Various farmed landuses

2016-02-14 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I agree with changes 2 and 3. For #1, I think it should be landuse=farmland instead of meadow. Rice fields are far from being meadows. On 2/14/16, David Groom wrote: > While looking at existing tagging of landuse areas in Leyte I have come > across a number which do not

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-13 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > The trouble with any non-profit service is that if they cease to get > donations, they will be shut down. > This observation also applies to the OSM database as hosted by the OSMF. But we all still contribute to OSM anyway

Re: [talk-ph] Forest landcover

2016-02-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I agree. I actually admire the detailed landcover areas found in many places in Europe in OSM and I can't see how such a level of detail would be problematic here in the Philippines. As for the saw-tooth coastlines, I'm actually surprised they still exist to a large degree since we did a

Re: [talk-ph] Any value in keeping imagery boundaries in OSM?

2016-01-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
If I remember correctly, the boundaries were re-added for the benefit of students mapping from the George Washington University. I can't find it now but there was a note (tag?) requesting that the boundaries not be deleted. I prefer that these be deleted as these are not data that properly

Re: [OSM-talk] VisualEditor on the OSM wiki

2016-01-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
OK. I'm slightly amused at the praise for enabling VisualEditor on the OSM Wiki, when there was a huge backlash on the English and German Wikipedias when VisualEditor was turned on and made the default editor for non-logged-in and newly registered users:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] If a school is a shelter when a disaster happens...

2015-12-31 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > besides the precise tagging (social facility or emergency), I just want to > point out that you can have 2 main tags for the same area (overlapping), > just not on the same object. > You could for instance

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2015-12-15 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: > My adding the wikipedia tag to the original Starbucks store... > I disagree with this tagging. You only tag wikipedia=* if the Wikipedia article and the OSM object refers to the same thing. The Wikipedia article is

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

2015-12-15 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Dave F. wrote: > On 14/12/2015 08:25, Sarah Hoffmann wrote: > >> >> Some helpful person has put a wikipedia link to the Starbucks >> wikipedia page on every single Starbucks in Japan. That's what >> throwing off Nominatim. Having a

[talk-ph] QA tools for finding map bugs and problems to fix in OSM

2015-12-05 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello, If you have some spare time and you want to help improve OSM, you might want to check out the following QA tools that highlight potential map problems that you can then fix. Warning! Not all problems highlighted by these tools are actual bugs! As always, please evaluate before blindly

[talk-ph] Mount Banahaw and San Cristobal Protected Landscape

2015-11-23 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Currently there is a protected area/nature reserve marked in OSM surrounding Mt. Banahaw and Mt. San Cristobal: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/14.0627/121.4957 However, this seems to be based on elevation contour lines and not the actual legislation which is R.A. 9847:

[talk-ph] Mapping all lanes of a toll plaza

2015-11-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello, Does the community think mapping individual lanes of a toll plaza is best practice? See the SLEX Nichols Toll Plaza for an example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/14.51881/121.02819 Personally, I prefer mapping just the center line of the tollway and just adding the lanes=* tag to

Re: [talk-ph] Mapping all lanes of a toll plaza

2015-11-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Rally de Leon wrote: > I prefer one (1) center line for each group or class (less clutter) eg. 1 > for those prepaid auto-debit lanes, 1 for car/cash, 1 for trucks/PUB; maybe > this can help the lane-assist feature in car navigation. > That

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On 11/19/15, Simon Poole wrote: > While rabid anti-OSMers are gaining more power and influence in HOT and > MM, [...] This bit is new to me. Care to explain who these anti-OSMers are, what their agenda is, and how they are using HOT and Missing Maps to further their agenda? (I've

Re: [talk-ph] Telenav's One Way Street Fixing

2015-10-31 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I think I have already fixed most of the problems when I looked at that diary entry earlier. On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 3:36 PM, maning sambale wrote: > Diary here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/36209 > > What's interesting? > > 1. There are

Re: [talk-ph] error in Makati CBD steps

2015-10-31 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Done. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34999830 On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:56 PM, maning sambale wrote: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/35799387/history > should probably be reverted. > > -- > cheers, > maning >

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

2015-10-30 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
You might notice something drastically different on the main OSM style especially with the road rendering and colors. Please see the following announcement for details. -- Forwarded message -- From: Matthijs Melissen Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:01 AM

Re: [talk-ph] [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

2015-10-30 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's the blog post: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2015/10/30/openstreetmap-org-map-changing/ On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > You might notice something drastically different on the main OSM style > especially with the road renderin

[talk-ph] Mapbox welcomes Maning Sambale!

2015-10-02 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Now the news is official: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/welcome-maning/ Congratulations! :-) ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] Jurisdiction over Manila Bay islands

2015-09-29 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, Please check the following changeset discussion: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34285022 Basically, we would like to get definitive information on which Cavite (or maybe even Bataan) municipalities have jurisdiction over the following islands in and around Manila Bay:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Geocoding as produced work (was: Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline)

2015-09-23 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On 9/23/15, Tom Lee wrote: >> >> I mean, nobody cares about a single on-the-fly geocoding result (this >> easily falls under the "substantial" guideline) but if you repeatedly >> query an ODbL database with the aim of retrieving from it, say, a >> million lat-lon pairs to store

[talk-ph] NEC WEB GIS 2015 workshop?

2015-09-16 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
There has apparently been an OSM-related workshop earlier today. I'm seeing a lot of new editors and edits. Some of the changesets have the hashtag #NECWEBGIS2015. I assume that this was held at the National Engineering Center (NEC) in UP Diliman. Does anybody know any details?

Re: [talk-ph] turn restrictions mapping

2015-09-15 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:01 AM, maning sambale wrote: > I'm trying to use JOSM's turn lane plugin as described by andygol [0]. > The comments on that diary entry are quite informative. I really like the JOSM plugin (so shiny!) that supports the relation-style

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > I could go through the discussion over the last month and identify a > grand total of five people who reject mapping abandoned railroads. > Just like in any mailing list, there is a vast majority of people who have one

[talk-ph] OSMF has a trademark on "OpenStreetMap" in the Philippines

2015-09-06 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi, The OSMF apparently now owns the "OpenStreetMap" trademark in the Philippines as shown by this Wiki page edit: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Trademark=next=1200887 I find it interesting that the Philippines is one of the territories deemed important for trademark

Re: [talk-ph] routing bug

2015-08-30 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I also didn't find anything wrong with the data. The routing plugin in JOSM is able to provide the correct route. I have a feeling that you would need to delete the intersection node and then recreate with a brand new node it in order to refresh the routing databases of the various routers. I

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The main problem here is that OSM is used by a large part of the UK web services [...] I agree that this is a problem. But not for the reasons you may think. The OSM default tileset is *not* meant to be used as a

[talk-ph] Address format myths

2015-07-24 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
The topic of address formats has been discussed on this mailing list a few times over the past years. I thought some of you might get a kick out of this list of myths about address formats from all over the world: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ It

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the first version

2015-07-09 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi all, There might be a drastic change of color scheme for the road system on the OSM main style. Instead of the rainbow UK-inspired scheme, we will get the more usual red-orange-yellow-white scheme. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com Date: Thu,

Re: [talk-ph] How Sausages are Made

2015-06-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I was actually the one who created the wiki page for bridge:name=* ;-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:bridge:nameaction=history On 6/20/15, Erwin Olario gov...@gmail.com wrote: @rally The video mentions a tag you might love: bridge:name *Erwin Olario* - - - - - - - - -

[talk-ph] State of the Map 2016 will be in Brussels, Belgium

2015-06-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
After SotM US 2015 invaded the UN Headquarters, SotM 2016 will now invade the capital of the European Union! :-) https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2015/06/20/announcing-sotm-2016/ ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

2015-06-17 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
This has been fixed in Osmand early this year after being reported more than 2 years ago. Unfortunately, multiple via ways are still not supported. https://code.google.com/p/osmand/issues/detail?id=1729 On 6/17/15, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: If you ask me, they are all in their

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

2015-06-17 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
, then you have multiple via ways. On 6/17/15, Michael Reichert naka...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, Am 2015-06-17 um 14:38 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar: This has been fixed in Osmand early this year after being reported more than 2 years ago. Unfortunately, multiple via ways are still not supported. I wonder

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-06-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-06-08 12:34 GMT+02:00 Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: Please see the following page for the relevant discussion: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Sources the second word in this page says you

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-06-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
can be tagged as being a metropolis if a reliable source states so, such as a government economic planning office. On 6/8/15, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Am 07.06.2015 um 21:37 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: Because in US copyright law, facts

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-06-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: tl;dr version: linking to wikidata is probably ok, including wikidata could be a minefield. I don't think anybody was actually suggesting to include bits and pieces of Wikidata into *the* OSM database. I think the idea is for

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-06-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:40 AM, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote: However the bit that I really don't understand is that, to take an example wikidata page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23098 the source of that is from other, non-CC0-licensed places - how can the result be CC0?

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-06-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Am 07.06.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar: .. So the advice of being wary of Wikidata's CC0 license should also be the same advice for OSM's ODbL license. The difference is that while we don't warrant

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-06-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: - individual facts extracted from wikipedia articles. From a WMF pov unproblematic since facts can't be copyrighted, from an OSM pov problematic because they might have originally been extracted from a 3rd party source and

[talk-ph] Negros Island Region

2015-06-05 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi all, PNoy just signed Executive Order 183 today, June 5, creating the new Negros Island Region and composed of Negros Occidental (from Western Visayas) and Negros Oriental (from Central Visayas). News article: http://www.rappler.com/nation/95377-aquino-creates-negros-island-region Has

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-02 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Jun 3, 2015 8:06 AM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: OSM's k=v design is completely a serious and unnecessary flaw. [...] OSM is 90% argument, 5% dead-end discussions and 5% progress. The whole is not a marketable product; it's not fit to be rated as 'beta'. Is this a significant

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-02 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On 6/3/15, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 3, 2015 8:06 AM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com mailto:pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: OSM's k=v design is completely a serious and unnecessary flaw

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-28 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:33 PM, moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/05/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Another issue that can be seen here: nobody will want this Puente Nuevo (París) as a label for a bridge on a map (París) Funny ah? Every single

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-27 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I agree that OSM is not the proper place to record every possible translation of every place name. And I think that Wikidata should be that proper place and just leave the few name:xx tags in place for the major languages that are spoken in that place, and only if the name is not a straight-up

Re: [talk-ph] Imagery update (April 2015)

2015-05-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
...@gmail.com wrote: We've lost northern section of Metro Manila and many parts of Bulacan. :( http://osmph.github.io/Imagery_Coverage_Map/#14.862836,120.892825,14 On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Ouch. I only got to look at the updated/redacted Bing

[talk-ph] ADB to train local government on OSM

2015-05-09 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello, Does anybody have any idea about this Asian Development Bank (ADB) project to train local governments on using OSM (among other tools) for disaster risk reduction? http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/6440-adb-to-train-philippine-officials-on-disaster-maps-apps ~Eugene

Re: [talk-ph] Imagery update (April 2015)

2015-04-11 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Ouch. I only got to look at the updated/redacted Bing imagery. It seems that the Batch 3 imagery and older are completely gone as well as some other imagery. I also see new imagery in various parts of the country, such as in Pangasinan, Isabela, and Surigao. On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:48 PM,

[talk-ph] UP GEOP OSM workshop on March 26

2015-03-23 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everybody, The UP Society of Geodetic Engineering Majors (UP GEOP) is organizing a workshop on OSM this Thursday, March 26, from 1:00 to 5:00pm at the Department of Geodetic Engineering in UP Diliman. I will be their guest lecturer. If you are free and want to help out with the editing after

Re: [OSM-talk] High load on the rendering servers?

2015-03-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Jon Burgess tracked the issue down to a way node being dragged from Japan to Brazil on the 3rd of this month, creating a very very long way that increased the rendering time for a large number of tiles at high zoom levels.

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging bridges and tunnels

2015-02-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Pierre, On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: Taginfo shows that tags such as bridge:name and bridge_name are used in other countries, but not in Philippines. bridge:name=* is definitely used in the Philippines. I and a couple or so other mappers have

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging bridges and tunnels

2015-02-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Ronny Ager-Wick ro...@ager-wick.com wrote: What do the rest of you think of renaming all ref tags to ref:ph? I know it would make sense here, and probably everywhere outside of Metro Manila, but what about Manila? OSM already has a standard set of

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging bridges and tunnels

2015-02-18 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Ervin, Option 1 is what I do. Take note that if we have a way with highway=something and bridge=yes, then the object is primarily a highway/road and the bridge is only an aspect or property of the highway/road segment. Therefore, the name=* tag should be the name of the highway/road. And then

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging bridges and tunnels

2015-02-18 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
to these by their name and not the road reference. Unless you have particularities in Philippines. Example Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco bay. OpenStreetMap | ‪Golden Gate Bridge‬ (‪52477381‬) http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/52477381 Pierre -- *De :* Eugene Alvin

Re: [talk-ph] how to edit area where current objects are off ..

2015-02-14 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Erwin, Where is this area? Maybe there's a new batch of imagery. Anyway, we try to determine which offset is correct. The usual way is to use GPS tracks to check. But in the absence of such, I will assume that newer imagery is positioned more correctly. ~Eugene On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:12

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: Invitation to the Workshop on Governance Model for National Exposure Information System

2015-02-11 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I'd love to come and talk about OSM, but unfortunately I will be out of the country on those dates. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:21 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear everyone, We received this invitation to do a 20 minute presentation on OpenStreetMap to the Office of

Re: [talk-ph] State of the Map US 2015 at the UN in New York City from June 6 to June 8

2015-02-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everybody, OpenStreetMap US is now accepting scholarship applications for SotM-US in New York City later this June: http://openstreetmap.us/2015/01/scholarships/ Please do apply. There's no harm in trying. :-) Regards, Eugene On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

2014-12-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Mark, This link should actually provide the most updated Bing imagery coverage: http://osmph.github.io/Imagery_Coverage_Map/#12.009771,124.381713,8 ~Eugene On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Jean-Guilhem updated the Bing Hi Res Imagery

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

2014-12-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
of this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the email and any attachments. === On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

2014-12-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
. === On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, The orange shapes indicate the latest added imagery. This is so that people can concentrate on these areas for tracing on the assumption

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

2014-12-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: Oh .. Even Cooler .. When we meet, beers are on me .. WOW!! How often is this updated?? On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, You can actually toggle the data layers by hovering

[talk-ph] OpenStreetMap 10th Anniversary Celebration on December 4 at BGC

2014-11-27 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everybody, We will be having a (belated) OpenStreetMap 10th Anniversary Celebration this coming December 4, Thursday, from 11:30am to 2pm at the Mind Museum Open Canopy at Bonifacio Global City. This event is free for all! We will be having snacks, mapping demos, and drone demonstrations!

[talk-ph] Sariaya Mini Mapping Party on November 29

2014-11-27 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, If you're not going to FOSS4G-PH this coming November 29 (see Maning's earlier e-mail), you might want to join us for a mini Mapping Party in Sariaya, Quezon instead! :-) If you are interested to join, please reply to me privately as we are finalizing arrangements. Hope you can

Re: [talk-ph] Mappers doing adding attribute

2014-11-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
polygons as its exposure data to be able to function correctly. Sir Maning instructed me to delete the points after we polygonize them. We apologize for not informing you right away. Thanks, Feye On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does

[talk-ph] Mappers doing adding attribute

2014-11-18 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi, Does anybody have any idea what these mappers are doing doing changesets that only say adding attribute? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/aileen_aviera/history http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Khym/history http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ivet/history Most of these changesets seem to be

Re: [talk-ph] Mapping party in CSJDM, Bulacan

2014-11-13 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Jessie, November 22 was suggested as a possible date for this OSM training/workshop for CSJDM in order to tie up with the OSM Geography Awareness Week. Is this OK? Please also inform us what kind of event the city would find beneficial. I think an introduction to what OSM is and how it is

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

2014-11-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: I personally have a somehow different opinion: 2014 was in (South) America, so why host the next SOTM again relativeley close to there (from the viewpoint of an European)? OK, the UN is prestigious location for such

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

2014-11-10 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
The following is just my opinion. Based on New York's bid proposal, the fact that it will be held at the UN and that it has an international character and not just a simple regional SotM, SotM US 2015 will definitely overshadow any of the 2 SotM 2015 bids which are Toronto and Venice. If the OSMF

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OSMGeoWeek

2014-11-05 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Why don't we have a #OSMGeoWeek event here in the Philippines as well? November 22, Saturday, seems like a good date. I guess we can decide to have an event during the November 7 Mappy Hour (please attend!). :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Mikel Maron mikel.ma...@gmail.com

[talk-ph] State of the Map US 2015 at the UN in New York City from June 6 to June 8

2014-11-05 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everybody, OSM US has just announced that 2015's State of the Map US conference will be held in New York City at the United Nations Headquarters from June 6 to June 8, 2015. Read the announcement here: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/11/sotmus-2015-in-nyc/ The United Nations has generously

Re: [talk-ph] New OSM website feature: changeset discussion

2014-11-03 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
And here's the official OSM Blog post introducing this new feature: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/11/02/introducing-changeset-discussions/ 1/3/14, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Great news! Expect my comments soon ;) On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar

Re: [talk-ph] Welcoming new PH mappers

2014-11-03 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
We can use the new Changeset Discussion feature for this. Instead of sending a PM to the user, just leave a friendly comment on their latest changeset. :-) I think we should create a standard template for welcoming new PH users. Here are some examples of what this message can contain according to

Re: [talk-ph] Mappy Hour Yolanda Anniversary (Nov 7?)

2014-11-03 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm game for this Mappy Hour. :-) On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:12 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Anyone up for a mappy hour for Yolanda's 1 year anniv? I can host it (as usual) in my office on Friday evening (Nov 7). Bring something to share (food and enthusiasm) :).

[talk-ph] New OSM website feature: changeset discussion

2014-11-02 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everybody, The hardworking developers have just released a new feature on the OpenStreetMap website which is called Changeset Discussions. This allows OSM users to discuss individual changesets. You might say that this is a bit similar to talk pages on Wikipedia. Here is an example comment I

[talk-ph] Halloween-themed map from Mapbox

2014-11-01 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Happy Halloween! https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/duncangraham.c8178788/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiZHVuY2FuZ3JhaGFtIiwiYSI6IlJJcWdFczQifQ.9HUpTV1es8IjaGAf_s64VQ#15/14.5894/-239.0206 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Eu Aid Volunteers and OSM

2014-10-23 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
It seems the article is missing from the European Commission website so here's a mirror: http://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/eu-aid-volunteer-uses-digital-mapping-help-prepare-disasters-phlippines On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:50 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for

Re: [talk-ph] Missing Maps Project

2014-10-17 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
opportunities. We're still lining up funding and hence can't make any promises yet, but we're very hopeful. Best, Robert On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Robert, I'm interested in bringing Missing Maps here in the Philippines. What phase

[talk-ph] Mozilla Community Space Manila

2014-10-14 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everybody, The Mozilla Philippines Community is proud to announce the launch of their Mozilla Community Space Manila. This is available for use by tech groups in the Philippines. You can read more from their press release:

Re: [talk-ph] tracing individual rice paddies

2014-10-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
tag? Erwin Olario - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - » email: er...@ngnuity.net | gov...@gmail.com » mobile: (PHL): +63 908 817 2013 » OpenPGP key: 3A93D56B | 5D42 7CCB 8827 9046 1ACB 0B94 63A4 81CE 3A93 D56B On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea

Re: [talk-ph] traffic lights galore

2014-10-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Yup, C-5 had the same set up where most of the U-turn slots were replaced with traffic-light controlled intersections. C-5 (Pasig and Libis portion) in OSM was actually updated on September 1, the same day that the new traffic scheme was implements. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:32 PM, tutubi

Re: [talk-ph] Missing Maps Project

2014-10-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Robert, I'm interested in bringing Missing Maps here in the Philippines. What phase of the project do you think would be best done here? If I understand correctly, the Missing Maps project can have 3 phases: an initial digitization of satellite imagery, then on-the-field data collection

[talk-ph] Mapping Party in Sariaya?

2014-10-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, After the WikiExpedition Santa Ana event which was held last September together with the Santa Ana Mapping Party, the next WikiExpedition will be in Sariaya, Quezon[1] in late November. Together with a few other people from Wikimedia Philippines, I went to Sariaya last Saturday,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question using Wikipedia coordinates

2014-10-10 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi, If you got the coordinates of objects on your own without looking at Google Maps or other copyrighted sources, then you should be able to publish them on Wikipedia and on OpenStreetMap in parallel. But do not indicate Wikipedia as the source in OpenStreetMap. Please use source=survey or

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