[talk-ph] Hi Guys and Gals, Open Street Map.

2009-01-18 Thread Michael Cole
Hi I am going to be setting up a server using the Philippine map mainly, Later we will be using the whole planet files, But i have notice some errors in the files i have downloaded so far,Towns are categorized in the wrong province, Or if they are not then the boundaries are wrong. I would

Re: [talk-ph] Hi Guys and Gals, Open Street Map.

2009-01-18 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/19 Michael Cole colemic...@gmail.com Hi I am going to be setting up a server using the Philippine map mainly, Later we will be using the whole planet files, But i have notice some errors in the files i have downloaded so far,Towns are categorized in the wrong province, Or if they are

Re: [talk-ph] Hi Guys and Gals, Open Street Map.

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Morgan
Hi Michael, I was asking about GPS equipment in this forum a couple of weeks ago and I got the following info: Try Infomax at Park Square, Greenhills, Megamall, Trinoma. They have some Garmin products and a few BT GPS Rxs. The price is very high thougher Apart from that, if you have friends in

Re: [talk-ph] Media Coverage

2009-01-18 Thread ian lopez
The media coverage may be good for the Pinoy OSM community, but I'm probably concerned that this would bring in vandals. Hopefully, it wouldn't happen. --- On Mon, 1/19/09, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: From: Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com Subject: [talk-ph] Media Coverage To: OSM

Re: [talk-ph] Media Coverage

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Morgan
ian lopez wrote, On Monday, January 19, 2009 10:12 AM: The media coverage may be good for the Pinoy OSM community, but I'm probably concerned that this would bring in vandals. Hopefully, it wouldn't happen. You know the saying there's no such thing as bad publicity. Well yes, I guess

Re: [talk-ph] Naga osm.png now Featured Picture on OSM Wiki

2009-01-18 Thread maning sambale
Yay! \O/ I just saw it appeared in the main wiki page. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, ian lopez ian_lopez_1...@yahoo.com wrote: Recently, I saw this page and it is now a featured picture. We now have a reason to celebrate in ths time of year (and something to discuss in the upcoming

Re: [talk-ph] Media Coverage

2009-01-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The problem with OSM is that there's no effective Recent Changes unlike in a text-based Wiki where the diff is institutionalized. We have ITO OSM Mapper to help point out activity, but unless we dig into the data, there's no way to know what has changed, whether a point was added to a way, or a

Re: [talk-ph] Hi Guys and Gals, Open Street Map.

2009-01-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Michael, I think the place points for the towns and cities were imported from the GeoNet Name Server. See this wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import#Geonet_Name_Server And it seems there are indeed errors. One town in the province of Compostela

Re: [talk-ph] Media Coverage

2009-01-18 Thread maning sambale
My take: On attracting more contributors: Yes! By all means. On vandalism: We all know OSM is a wiki. So nobody can stop vandalism, in my experience most newbie mappers do not really vandalize, they're just making mistakes. We all do at some point of our mapping. That being said, with more

[talk-ph] Helping greenmap philippines

2009-01-18 Thread maning sambale
Hi, The organizers of green map philippines is asking for our help. http://www.philippinegreenmap.org/ Basically, they want a slippymap for their website showing green sites. They currently have 600+ establishments/POIs marked as green. Creating a mash-up of POIS overlayed with OSM data as