Re: [talk-ph] Historical OSM

2023-11-01 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 2:05 PM Jim Morgan wrote: > I was just curious to look at the OSM map for Manila from 2007 when I > started mapping. Is there a way to display this? Some sort of OSM > time-machine? > > I looked around but didn't find anything useful, except for someone > suggesting to

[talk-ph] Proposal to move talk-ph to OSM Discourse

2023-07-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, How do people here think about deprecating the use of the talk-ph mailing list and start using PH-tagged threads in the OSM Discourse site? https://community.openstreetmap.org To give some examples, here are threads tagged for the German community:

Re: [Talk-transit] [OSM-talk] Automated Populate/Update Problem

2023-01-28 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi, I work for the state transport department > Sorry if I missed this somewhere, but which state and which country? Depending on the answer, there might be a local community that can help and provide guidance as well with the conflation/import process. Thanks, Eugene On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at

[talk-ph] Mapping of proposed highways and railways

2022-12-06 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi! I have noticed that some mappers seem to want to map proposed highways and railways even if they are just proposals for now. An example is the LRT Line 6 East Extension which goes from GMA, Cavite to Santa Rosa, Laguna. See the following relation history:

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated Populate/Update Problem

2022-09-28 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi, I work for the state transport department > Sorry if I missed this somewhere, but which state and which country? Depending on the answer, there might be a local community that can help and provide guidance as well with the conflation/import process. Thanks, Eugene On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at

Re: [talk-ph] City node location

2022-01-26 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I prefer the placing the node at the poblacion and specifically at the town plaza if possible and not at the city/town hall. The exception would be if there's no obvious plaza or if there's a very economically significant business district that has supplanted the poblacion in importance (e.g.,

Re: [talk-ph] Sloped Borders

2021-09-22 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I think mapping fault lines is already a challenge. While the fault line is a line on the ground, it really slopes underground. On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:53 PM Jim Morgan wrote: > From the consistently entertaining XKCD: > > https://xkcd.com/2519/ > > Jim > >

[talk-ph] 17-hour global mapathon to celebrate OSM's 17th anniversary

2021-08-06 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all! This weekend, OpenStreetMap would be 17 years old! To celebrate this milestone, the Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) is organizing a 17-hour global mapathon on August 8th, Sunday. 17 local communities will each host 1 hour of

Re: [talk-ph] On legally defined LGU boundaries and recent land developments

2021-06-13 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I don't think we can have any definitive solution here. People will interact with the LGU of their preference or practicality despite what boundaries on paper or laws state. Long-time OSM mapper Rally have plenty of stories regarding people choosing Taytay vs. Cainta. My personal preference is

Re: [talk-ph] Your final say on the proposed road classification scheme

2021-05-22 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
HI Jherome, I forgot to add, I think we should also include tagging the official legal classifications of roads using the "designation" key: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation I think we can have the following values: "expressway", "national", "provincial", "city", "municipal",

[talk-ph] Interview of David Garcia by UC Science Radio

2021-05-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all! As you may know, our fellow mapmaker and OSM mapper David Garcia is currently pursuing his PhD in Aotearoa New Zealand. He was recently interviewed by UC Science Radio, a science outreach program of the University of Canterbury, to talk about OSM and de-colonializing the practice of

Re: [talk-ph] RFC - Proposed mapping guidelines for roads (classifications, names)

2021-03-03 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I don't see the logic of downgrading trunk roads merely because there is a parallel expressway. Our expressways are toll=yes roads and if these expressways did not exist, then these trunk roads would correctly be tagged as highway=trunk. I think that we disregard the existence of highway=motorway

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OSMF 2021 Survey is activated: please take the survey!

2021-01-16 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello OSM Philippines! I would like to invite you to answer the 2021 OSM community survey that we in the OSM Foundation Board have put together. We want to know what the community thinks about what the Foundation did last year and what do you think the Foundation should focus on for this year and

Re: [talk-ph] ICYMI: Pista ng Mapa 2020 is starting tomorrow!

2020-11-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
the following YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_Y0WtqwYrIjgOMn5xWV_uXABcEHxoOi_ ~Eugene On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 11:08 PM Eugene Alvin Villar, wrote: > Hello all! > > To celebrate OSM+Geography Awareness Week this November, the OSM and > OSGeo/FOSS

[talk-ph] Lupang Arenda collab from the point-of-view of Mapbox

2020-11-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Maning wrote on the Mapbox blog about how a routine review of edits in OpenStreetMap led to a massive collaboration to map Lupang Arenda in Taytay, Rizal and training barangay staff to use open mapping technologies and tools.

[OSM-talk] Pista ng Mapa 2020: open mapping conference in the Philippines starts tomorrow

2020-11-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all! To celebrate OSM+Geography Awareness Week, the OSM and OSGeo/FOSS4G community in the Philippines is holding the 2nd annual Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) conference online for the next three Fridays, on November 13th, 20th, and 27th: https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/ There are

[talk-ph] ICYMI: Pista ng Mapa 2020 is starting tomorrow!

2020-11-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all! To celebrate OSM+Geography Awareness Week this November, the OSM and OSGeo/FOSS4G community in the Philippines is holding the 2nd annual Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) conference online for the next three Fridays, on November 13th, 20th, and 27th: https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/

[talk-ph] Mini mapping activation for Typhoon Rolly (Goni)

2020-11-01 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, MapBeks, together with the Ministry of Mapping, MapaDatos, and Mental Health AWhereness, has created two HOT Tasking Manager projects to help map residential landuse areas in a few provinces affected by Typhoon Rolly. These projects will not focus on mapping buildings, but mapping

[talk-ph] [MapBeks] Invitation to UNMAPPEDPH: The Largest Philippine OSM Competition

2020-10-31 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, I'm forwarding this announcement from MapBeks to the list. __ Greetings! We would like to cordially invite you to MapBeks' #UNMAPPED PH Mapping competition in celebration of this year's GEO Month! We will be opening this weekly mapping event for all newbie and expert OSM

Re: [talk-ph] Help fix the road network in the Philippines with MapRoulette challenges

2020-10-01 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
1.202.270.4464 | > andrew_wise...@apple.com > > On Oct 1, 2020, at 6:26 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > Hi Erwin, > > Thanks for the tip! I never did bother to look at the layout customization > feature. I've now taken a look at the multi-task widget and I agree that > this wo

Re: [talk-ph] Help fix the road network in the Philippines with MapRoulette challenges

2020-10-01 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
p://ngnuity.net/> | gov...@gmail.com > » mobile: https://t.me/GOwin > » OpenPGP key: 3A93D56B | 5D42 7CCB 8827 9046 1ACB 0B94 63A4 81CE 3A93 > D56B > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 8:19 AM Eugene Alvin Villar > wrote: > >> Hello Andrew, >> >> Thank you aga

Re: [talk-ph] Help fix the road network in the Philippines with MapRoulette challenges

2020-09-30 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello Andrew, Thank you again for providing these MapRoulette challenges. I've been going through some of these and I do have one feedback regarding the overlapping ways challenge which I hope can be improved on in the future. Right now, if there are two roads that are overlapping each other, a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:19 PM Andy Townsend wrote: > For those unfamiliar with it, the OSM US' Slack instance has a > "feed-changeset-comments" channel which shows new changeset discussion > comments shortly after they are added. There are lots of other ways of > getting at that data as well

Re: [talk-ph] Help fix the road network in the Philippines with MapRoulette challenges

2020-09-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Andrew, Thank you for providing additional MR tasks. I've been looking at these new challenges and I think that two of the challenges seem to have a large amount of duplicate tasks with each other: "Philippines - Overlapping Ways" (12768) and "Philippines - Overlapping Ways / Vías

[OSM-talk] A Call to Correct Narratives about Geospatial Work in the Philippines

2020-09-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, Last September 1, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released an episode of their documentary series Now Go Build which highlighted the work done by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in the Philippines, especially in mapping the town of Guagua, in the province of Pampanga. You can see AWS'

[talk-ph] A Call to Correct Narratives aboutGeospatial Work in the Philippines

2020-09-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, Last September 1, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released an episode of their documentary series *Now Go Build* which highlighted the work done by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in the Philippines, especially in mapping the town of Guagua, Pampanga. You can see AWS' video here:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] local copyright law on government data and OSM license

2020-07-16 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Kathleen, all, Just as a bit of reference, the original intellectual property law from 1924, back when the Philippines was a territory of the United States, didn't have this commercial-with-prior-approval second sentence and was basically modeled after the U.S. law (government works are fully

Re: [talk-ph] Draw the line between primary and secondary road classes for rural areas.

2020-07-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
en indicates a heavily traveled route to many > of us), and they better fit a lower class that is, usually, secondary. > > --TagaSanPedroAko > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 1:29 AM Eugene Alvin Villar, > wrote: > >> Hi Jherome, >> >> I think the problem with d

Re: [talk-ph] Filipino speakers at State of the Map 2020

2020-06-30 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 5:30 PM Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Hello all, > > State of the Map (SotM), which is the annual conference for and by the OSM > community, will be happening this weekend from July 4, Saturday, to July 5, > Sunday, online. Visit the website here: https://2020.st

[talk-ph] Filipino speakers at State of the Map 2020

2020-06-29 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
at SotM since 2018 and 2020 is no different. Catch the following people: 1. Leigh Lunas "Drones for Community Mapping" https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/8JQ7PY/ Saturday, 18:45 PHT 2. Eugene Alvin Villar "Building Stronger Communities Together: the

Re: [talk-ph] Draw the line between primary and secondary road classes for rural areas.

2020-06-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Jherome, I think the problem with discussing the road classifications in the Philippines is that the proposals you are suggesting are too abstract. Here's a suggestion: Why not create a simple map using uMap[1] showing how your proposed changes would affect the road network in a few selected

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] HOT Update

2020-06-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, I'm forwarding some big news from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) that may hugely affect the OSM community in the Philippines over the next few years. Yesterday, HOT announced that they are one of the eight recipients of a multi-year funding from TED's The Audacious Project.

[talk-ph] WeMap: OSM + Wikidata, May 6

2020-05-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, This May 6 starting at 7:30pm, we will be having our 7th Wednesday MapaTime (WeMap) session and this time we will be looking at how to improve OpenStreetMap data by complementing it with Wikidata, two of the biggest, open and collaborative knowledge-base platforms powered by

[talk-ph] WeMap: Flight of the Drones webinar tonight, April 29

2020-04-29 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, If you are following us on Facebook or are in the OSM PH Telegram group, you should already know that the PH open mapping community has been holding a series of online/virtual weekly webinars/mapathons every Wednesday night since late March called Wednesday MapaTime or WeMap. Tonight

Re: [OSM-talk] Please be gentle with newbies

2020-03-04 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Wikipedia has had a behavioural guideline like this since almost the beginning with the nickname WP:BITE: Please do not bite the newcomers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 7:25 AM john whelan, wrote: > These days I'm retired and

Re: [talk-ph] Community call with Allan Mustard (OSMF Board Chair)

2020-02-25 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 9:08 PM maning sambale, wrote: > Is this going to be recorded? I have an overlap and would love to hear the > community discussion. > Hi Maning, I'm sorry to hear you can't make it. I'll see if I can do a recording. Or at least have someone volunteer to take some notes.

Re: [talk-ph] Community call with Allan Mustard (OSMF Board Chair)

2020-02-24 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
-is-allan-mustard-140816?news=853983 Regards, Eugene On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 1:41 AM Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Hello all, > > Allan Mustard, the new chairperson of the Board of Directors of the > OpenStreetMap Foundation, would like to have a one-hour call with the OSM

[talk-ph] (no subject)

2020-02-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, There is an ongoing email thread on the OSM tagging mailing list about a proposal to add the tag amenity=motorcycle_taxi to mark the station where one can hire motorcycle-based taxis (very similar to our tricycles). (Note: we are not talking about Angkas-like services which is what we

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Microgrants call for committee

2020-02-16 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
-- Forwarded message - From: Joost Schouppe Date: Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 7:11 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Microgrants call for committee To: Hi, The Microgrants project is ready for launch! When we first received the Pineapple fund donation, the money was quickly earmarked as to be

[talk-ph] Community call with Allan Mustard (OSMF Board Chair)

2020-02-09 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, Allan Mustard, the new chairperson of the Board of Directors of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, would like to have a one-hour call with the OSM community in the Philippines. Allan has been reaching out to various OSM local communities all over the world. For instance, he did a call with

Re: [talk-ph] is_in tags in the Philippines

2020-02-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
, 3:50 PM Eugene Alvin Villar, wrote: > I generally agree except for the cases where the tag value corresponds to > an administrative entity that already has a boundary relation. In which > case I would then remove the tag. > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 10:16 AM Erwin Olario, wrote: &

Re: [talk-ph] Proposal to update the PH resources in the osm-community-index

2020-01-30 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
so add the HOT Ph Facebook page and Telegram chat on the list? > > Thanks! > > Best, > Nick > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, 04:57 Eugene Alvin Villar, wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> If you have ever edited in OSM using the iD editor, you may have noticed >> a li

[talk-ph] Proposal to update the PH resources in the osm-community-index

2020-01-29 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, If you have ever edited in OSM using the iD editor, you may have noticed a list of communication channels on the left sidebar after you have saved your edits. This list comes from the osm-community-index: https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index I would like to propose some

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging of barangays and sitios/puroks

2020-01-22 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
The value is that we align better to the global tagging scheme with respect to human settlements. And there is a great variability in barangays that shoehorning them all into just place=village no longer makes sense. For example, Barangay 12 in Pasay is essentially just a small city block while

[talk-ph] Typhoon Kammuri/Tisoy Response Mapathon

2019-12-02 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Philippines (HOT PH) and Thinking Machines Data Science are organizing a mapathon in response to Typhoon Kammuri/Tisoy. The mapathon will be held at Thinking Machines' office in BGC this Thursday, December 5 from 6 to 9pm. Event details and free

Re: [talk-ph] Revisiting road classifications

2019-10-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi, I am not convinced that we should take DPWH's road classifications with great weight in refining OSMPH's road classification. Note that "National Road" does not mean that the road is functionally important but rather it only means that DPWH is the government agency in charge of maintaining

Re: [OSM-talk] MS GitHub? | Re: Tagging Governance

2019-09-13 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:27 PM Andy Townsend wrote: > If someone's less familiar with something, they're likely to volunteer to > contribute using it. It doesn't matter if it's Markdown, TeX (is that > still a thing? I last used it 30-odd years ago) or the solution du jour - > anything that

Re: [talk-ph] Help fix the road network in the Philippines with MapRoulette challenges

2019-09-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Andrew, Thanks for setting up these MapRoulette challenges! I'm happy to see that Apple is interested in helping out improve OSM data in the Philippines. On the other hand, we never seem to run out of OSM notes, fixme=* tagged objects, and Osmose and Keep Right bugs to fix, so another set of

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Marc, On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 7:36 PM marc marc wrote: > could you share a link that shows that it is the local community that > solicited facebook as the wiki page claims and not facebook that invents > a collaboration to "whashing" their wishs ? given the frequent issues > (about both the

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Frederik, On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 5:55 PM Frederik Ramm wrote: > do I understand correctly that you and your local partners aim to > recruit new mappers to OSM, who will not learn the "old fashioned" > workflow of tracing stuff from imagery by hand, but be mainly taught to > work with

[OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello! The community of OSM mappers in the Philippines are pleased to announce an initiative to use AI or machine learning (ML)-derived data to help improve the coverage of OpenStreetMap in the Philippines and we are calling it Tabang-AI. This is word play on the Cebuano word *tábangay* which

[talk-ph] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello! We are pleased to announce an initiative to use AI or machine learning (ML)-derived data to help improve the coverage of OpenStreetMap in the Philippines and we are calling it Tabang-AI. This is word play on on Cebuano word *tábangay* which means "collaboration" or "teamwork". We believe

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey on global and local communities in OpenStreetMap

2019-08-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:55 PM marc marc wrote: > where are the results of the previous survey and the resulting actions > available? > I don't remember the exact title but I'm talking about the investigation > about what osmf could/should do, a few months ago. > The OSMF Board published a

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Survey on global and local communities in OpenStreetMap

2019-08-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
-- Forwarded message - From: Dorothea Kazazi Date: Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 7:03 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Survey on global and local communities in OpenStreetMap To: Hello, The following survey on global and local communities in OpenStreetMap was developed by board members. The

Re: [talk-ph] Potentially problematic edits

2019-06-27 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Andy, Thank you for this notice. I have reverted the changeset you mentioned. While I am a bit too far away to confirm on-the-ground, I have tried to confirm or research online any news about any supposed "future expansion" of the shopping mall including in real estate forums and I did not

[talk-ph] Pista ng Mapa 2019

2019-06-13 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all! Are you a fan of open geo datasets and free and open-source geospatial software and tools? Pista ng Mapa ("Feast of Maps"), the open mapping conference in the Philippines, will be held at Foundation University, Dumaguete this coming 1–3 August 2019. Registration is free! (Travel and

Re: [OSM-talk] Terminate Facebook rights under ODbL (Andy Mabbett )

2019-06-13 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 6:17 PM Nuno Caldeira wrote: > [...] OSMF is the licensor [...] > Well, if we really want to be strict about it, AFAIK, Facebook did not get their map data directly from OSMF but rather through Mapbox. Mapbox got their data directly from OSMF and are re-releasing their

Re: [OSM-talk] Terminate Facebook rights under ODbL

2019-06-10 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:47 PM Yves wrote: > I think a small '(c)OSM' for small screen web or app could be suggested as > OK, what do you think? > Why not revive this dormant proposal for a small attribution logo that was proposed 6 years ago:

[talk-ph] OSMPH × GrabPH Mapathon 1

2019-06-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, Grab Philippines is hosting a free mapathon  at their office in Makati on July 6, 2019, Saturday, from 1pm to 5pm in the afternoon. Grab will be providing free food  and refreshments 磻 and they will also have some giveaways. Also, participants who arrive on time (1pm ) will get

[talk-ph] iD v2.15.0 has been released with a lot of new powerful features

2019-05-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, iD 2.15.0 has been released recently with a lot of really powerful new features making it closer to JOSM in power.  Here's a Twitter thread from Quincy Morgan, one of the main iD developers, showing GIFs of these powerful new features, such as raw tag editing (so you can now copy and

[talk-ph] HOT is looking for a PH Country Manager

2019-05-14 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Just forwarding some information: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has recently posted a job opening for a Country Manager to lead a 12-month project in the Philippines that will be funded by USAID. You can see the job description and info on how to apply here if you are interested:

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2019 Call for Nominees is open!

2019-04-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
-- Forwarded message - From: Ilya Zverev Date: Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 5:26 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2019 Call for Nominees is open! To: Talk Openstreetmap Hi folks, 'Tis that time of the year: only a week until SotM Call for Papers closes, and time to think

[talk-ph] Congratulations to the UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers!

2019-04-16 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
The UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers received funding to help implement their Bohol exposure data mapping from TELUS Philippines.  More info here: https://www.facebook.com/UPRIYouthMappers/posts/274609556753352 ___ talk-ph mailing list

[talk-ph] HOT Microgrant

2019-04-16 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Congratulations to Action for Resilient Communities (ARC), a local non-governmental organization, and JPCS - FEU Institute of Technology, a local YouthMappers chapter, for being one of the communities selected for a 2019 microgrant from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team!  Read more about the

[talk-ph] UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers received the 2019 Women's Participation Award

2019-03-28 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
The YouthMappers chapter of the UP Resilience Institute has received the 2019 Women's Participation Award from the International YouthMappers network for engaging through leadership and membership of a majority of female student mappers into their YouthMappers chapter. Link:

[talk-ph] Mapping the gaps in OpenStreetMap

2019-03-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Thinking Machines, a Philippine data science services company, did an analysis of where in the Philippines buildings are still missing by comparing OSM data with the Facebook's population dataset: https://stories.thinkingmachin.es/mapthegap The provinces that are very complete are due to mapping

[talk-ph] Thinking Machines' analysis of Metro Manila building completeness

2019-03-02 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
For Open Data Day, Thinking Machines (a Philippine data science services company)[1] did an analysis of building completeness in the Greater Manila Area.[2] They promise to put out a blog post soon to provide details of their analysis and presumably their methodology. Note: the DATOS project of

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:06 PM Christoph Hormann wrote: > I cannot help pointing out that the EU commission is also responsible for > one of the most ridiculous cases of improper attribution i have seen so far: > > https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/ > Well, OSM *is* attributed on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot edits on the OSM wiki

2019-02-25 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Monday, February 25, 2019, Christoph Hormann wrote: > Now the question if aristocratic governance would be beneficial for the > OSM wiki compared to the anarchy we currently have more or less is > something i would be open to discuss. But basing membership in the > aristocratic class on the

Re: [talk-ph] Request clarification on access restrictions

2019-02-20 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:56 PM Erwin Olario wrote: > destination - temporary access is given, until destination is reached > (shared roads, in gated communities/subdivisions/estates) > I actually have a quibble with access=destination when tagged for roads inside gated communities.

Re: [talk-ph] Request for clarification on road tagging guidelines

2019-01-28 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 7:12 PM grab osm via talk-ph < talk-ph@openstreetmap.org wrote: > But, how would we go about when we find a missing connector. Will it be a > good idea to tag it as highway = road? > Tag it with either the minor road type or the major link type. You can also look at

Re: [talk-ph] Request for clarification on road tagging guidelines

2019-01-28 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Lavanya, I personally would tag this the same as the side street and not the link version of the major road. My reason is: imagine if the side street actually goes through the major road to the other side. To me it makes logical sense that the minor street retains the characteristics such as

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for phot of mapping mappers

2019-01-22 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:22 AM Christoph Hormann wrote: > I like in particular > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Guagua_ESSC-OSMPH_Training_field_survey.jpg > Thanks! Looking at this media page, I see that I only uploaded a scaled-down version. Oops. I have now re-uploaded the

Re: [talk-ph] Music Venues

2019-01-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I personally just tag the type of establishment and not really bother with whether the place often has live bands or musicians. Usually it is amenity=bar but could also be amenity=pub or amenity=nightclub. On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:46 AM Jim Morgan wrote: > I've often thought it would be useful

Re: [OSM-talk] Language used in OSM forum/wiki/mailing list

2018-12-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 5:40 PM Naveen Francis wrote: > Is there any policy on the language used in OSM talk/forum/wiki ? > I was going through Thailand OSM forum > . > For a raising a concern we need not use abusive language. > Users using

Re: [talk-ph] Grab in conflict with Thailand OSM community

2018-12-20 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 3:25 PM Glen Scott wrote: > Is it a concern that they keep referring to Bing imagery "We will also > use Bing imagery to ensure there are no missing roads". In the parts I've > looked at, some roads on Bing just don't exist any more! Bing is good for > coastline where

Re: [talk-ph] Grab in conflict with Thailand OSM community

2018-12-20 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi JP, Grab/Global Logic's mapping team have reached out to the OSMPH community to inform and coordinate with us their mapping efforts for the Metro Manila[1][2], San Fernando[3], Binalonan[4] and Metro Cebu[5] areas. They have also participated in the OSMPH and OSM Asia Telegram group chats to

Re: [OSM-talk] Grab using OSM Data for route preview

2018-12-18 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wednesday, December 19, 2018, Mishari Muqbil wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Good news overall for the project I suppose, Grab (SE Asia's Uber) is using data from OSM to do fare calculations as well as display route previews in their app, making it a high profile use case for OSM Data. Now if only

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Candidate's views? Re: Board decision on Crimea complaint

2018-12-11 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:02 PM Imre Samu wrote: > TLDR: We need focusing for the customizable vector tiles for the next > year!( Less community fighting - more working on the real problems! ) > Vector tiles and customizable styling is not enough. AFAIK, we never use 3rd-party data

Re: [talk-ph] Bohol Panglao Airport

2018-12-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
This has been mentioned on the OSMPH Telegram channel. Unfortunately, none of the hi-res sat imagery has recent imagery of the airport. But somebody has already mapped the basic stuff. I think we can use Landsat or Sentinel-2 to add more rough details.

[talk-ph] OSM Geography Awareness Week 2018

2018-11-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello folks! This week is [OSM] Geography Awareness Week[1] and we have two OSM-related events coming up! 1. UP Resilience Institute GeoWeek Mapping Party 2018 - c/o UP Resilience Institute, UPRI YouthMappers, and Map the Philippines When: November 14, 2018 from 2:00pm to 6:00pm Where: NIGS AVR,

[talk-ph] (no subject)

2018-08-12 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, I'm forwarding this message posted by the Grab OSM team. You can see the referred document in the message on GitHub here: https://github.com/GRABOSM/Grab-Data/issues/19#issuecomment-410603506 ~Eugene > Good Morning All, > > Firstly, we would like to sincerly thank Erwin and Rally

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimedia Maps deployment

2018-05-03 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: > It's also good that they were able to deploy multiple language versions > - we would hit this problem anyway, sooner or later, and I hope that > eventually we will be able to provide them too. > FWIW, multi-language maps is one

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] New MapRoulette version

2018-03-28 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Martijn van Exel Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:44 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] New MapRoulette version To: OSM Talk Hi all, MapRoulette v3 is now in public beta. I wrote a diary highlighting the main new features.

[talk-ph] Proposed worldwide import of gasoline stations (amenity=fuel) from the NavAds dataset

2018-03-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello, Ilya Zverev (one of the main developers of MAPS.ME ) is proposing to import data for gasoline stations worldwide from the NavAds database. The dataset currently has around 700 stations in the Philippines and it would be great if we can

Re: [talk-ph] Open Data Day 2018

2018-03-08 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, Last Saturday, March 3, we successfully celebrated Open Data Day at the PUP San Juan Campus. Thank you to everybody who attended and celebrated Open Data Day with us! Here are links and photos from the event: OSM user diary entries from Erwin and Angelica:

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-dev] iD news - v2.7.0, new imagery, upgraded turn restriction editor

2018-03-05 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bryan Housel Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:52 AM Subject: [OSM-dev] iD news - v2.7.0, new imagery, upgraded turn restriction editor To: osm-dev Hey everyone, I just released iD v2.7.0 and it’s now

Re: [OSM-talk] Donation from the Pineapple Fund

2018-03-05 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:21 PM, Dave F wrote: > I've very little knowledge or even interest in Bitcoin, but was it > converted into hard currency? If not, is it worth much now? > > DaveF > Per Frederik's (OSMF Treasurer) email on the OSMF mailing list in January,

[OSM-talk] SharedStreets open platform is built on top of OSM

2018-02-22 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
I came across this article describing SharedStreets which is intended to be an open platform for city governments and private entities like Uber to share street-related data like traffic data, taxi/cab pickup points, and the like. The chief architect for SharedStreets says: "What GTFS does for

Re: [talk-ph] Open Data Day 2018

2018-02-18 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
wrote: > Thank you for sharing, Eugene. > > The venue is PUP San Juan Campus: https://osm.org/go/4zhSCc4Rs--?m= > > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:15 AM Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> You are invited to celebrate the

Re: [OSM-talk] "The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps" Slashdot.org , Saturday February 17, 2018

2018-02-17 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:53 PM, john whelan wrote: > Possibly a technical working group to identify areas that could be > improved or even if we were to start over again how would we do it from a > technical point of view? Funding would be a different problem. > I

[talk-ph] Upcoming State of the Map 2018 deadlines

2018-02-11 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
If you are planning to attend the international State of the Map 2018 in Milan, Italy, here are some upcoming deadlines this week: Deadline for scholarship/grant applications is on February 14, Wednesday. You can apply here:

[talk-ph] Open Data Day 2018

2018-02-01 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, You are invited to celebrate the international Open Data Day 2018 on March 3, Saturday! We will have an afternoon event in San Juan, Metro Manila (venue TBA) and this is organized by Erwin as part of his MapAm❤re Initiative. Registration is free. Just head over here to get your free

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Bryan Housel" Date: Jan 23, 2018 12:48 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features... To: "osm-talk" Cc: Happy 2018! I just released iD v2.6.0 yesterday.. * Release Highlights* -

Re: [talk-ph] Pasay Boundary

2018-01-19 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
The border east of Roxas Boulevard is well attested. See for example this map of Barangay 1 in Pasay,[1] and this map of Manila.[2] What's not exactly clear though is the border west of Roxas Boulevard. I once read an article about a court case wherein Pasay and Manila were disputing to which

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-16 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2017, Tyler Radford wrote: > > [...] big-impact projects conceptualized by OSM community leaders. > > I had hoped that HOT learned from the tasking manager problem a few > months back that

[talk-ph] Fwd: [Tagging] iD news: v2.5.0, OpenStreetCam, and request for translation help..

2017-12-07 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bryan Housel Date: Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:35 PM Subject: [Tagging] iD news: v2.5.0, OpenStreetCam, and request for translation help.. Happy December! We have lots moving in the iD editor project. * OpenStreetCam* Last

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned rendering changes of protected areas

2017-11-30 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:05 PM, ajt1...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> On 30/11/2017 13:46, Daniel Koć wrote: >> >>> 1. Currently leisure=nature_reserve (old scheme) and boundary=* (new >>> scheme) are

Re: [talk-ph] Strava Heatmap

2017-11-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
On Nov 21, 2017 4:52 PM, "Jim Morgan" <j...@datalude.com> wrote: Eugene Alvin Villar wrote on Tuesday, 21 November, 2017 01:52 PM: > I find it more useful for aligning imagery. :) Interesting. I know how to align the background imagery in OSM to the GPS traces within OSM. B

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Directed Editing Policy

2017-11-21 Per discussione Eugene Alvin Villar
The OSMPH community has done a lot of "directed editing" activities and events in the past so the following forwarded announcement is relevant to us. Comments and suggestions are welcome and we will try to relay these to the Foundation. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Frederik

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