[talk-ph] Fwd: [HOT] Senior Field Coordinator Open Cities Initiative in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

2013-04-24 Thread maning sambale
HOT job and opportunity to travel to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:10 PM Subject: [HOT] Senior Field Coordinator Open Cities Initiative in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka To: hot h...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-ph] ideas on importing deped schools db to OSM

2013-04-24 Thread maning sambale
Dear Eugene, Thank you for looking at the data. On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: We should not import the data straight out. I've checked some of the data and some of them are located on the road in front of the school and not on the school itself.

[talk-ph] OpenStreetBugs-like functionality is now on the main OSM website!

2013-04-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Some of you may know about OpenStreetBugs: http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?lat=14.6lon=121.05zoom=14 It's a 3rd-party website where people can easily submit bug reports on the map. For example: this building no longer exists. For mappers, it's also a quick way of placing notes and

Re: [talk-ph] ideas on importing deped schools db to OSM

2013-04-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello, On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:52 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Eugene, Thank you for looking at the data. On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: We should not import the data straight out. I've checked some of the data

[talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think most of you already know that the Philippines is supposed to have a land area of 300,000 kmĀ². This is what is stored in the United Nations: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2009-2010/Table03.pdf However, the National Statistical Coordination Board says its 343,448.32

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread tutubi
Eugene, land area may vary, depends whether it was measured during high tide or low tide too :) --- I explore, therefore I blog! http://www.backpackingphilippines.com http://www.facebook.com/backpackingPhilippines http://www.twitter.com/backpackPH On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Eugene Alvin

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread rem zamora
Parang tanong lang sa Miss Universe ah :) On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:58 AM, tutubi tut...@backpackingphilippines.comwrote: Eugene, land area may vary, depends whether it was measured during high tide or low tide too :) --- I explore, therefore I blog!

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread maning sambale
Unless they tell you the scale, don't trust the numbers. Its a fractal problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:09 AM, rem zamora pompy...@gmail.com wrote: Parang tanong lang sa Miss Universe ah :) On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:58 AM, tutubi

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread Noli Sicad
Parang tanong lang sa Miss Universe ah :) Approximately. blah blah :-) Noli ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread Jim Morgan
tutubi wrote, On Thursday, 25 April, 2013 09:58 AM: land area may vary, depends whether it was measured during high tide or low tide too I was about to make the same joke! But then I did a quick back-of-an-envelope calculation and found out it wouldn't actually make that much difference:

Re: [talk-ph] ideas on importing deped schools db to OSM

2013-04-24 Thread maning sambale
It might be better to divide the data also along geographical lines. For example, by provinces and then divide the data per province into smaller chunks like Ilocose Norte 1, Ilocos Norte 2, etc. I think chunks of 100 is much more manageable. I certainly don't think I can process 500 schools