Re: [talk-ph] Does WMS/Landsat have an offset?

2009-04-10 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/10 Ed Garcia > Related my earlier reply post on coastlines, here is an example showing > that the landsat image is probably offset or "not calibrated"? > > here is a screen capture of JOSM showing Aslom Island south of Mindoro: > > http://www.waypoints.ph/images/aslomisland.jpg > > The blu

Re: [talk-ph] Yahoo!'s satellite imagery in Makati CBD is not good enough

2009-04-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/9 Mike Collinson > At 11:26 AM 9/04/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I was doing some cleaning up and some building mapping in the Makati CBD > area and I noticed that the satellite imagery in Yahoo! (provided by GeoEye) > has some really bad stitching (multiple satellite

[talk-ph] Fwd: Mapnik coastline shapefile update - Philippine coast still somewhat square when exported

2009-03-02 Thread D Tucny
ssage -- From: D Tucny Date: 2009/3/3 Subject: Mapnik coastline shapefile update - Philippine coast still somewhat square when exported To: Jon Burgess Cc: OSM Talk 2009/3/3 Jon Burgess > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:51 +, Kevin Peat wrote: > > I made some changes a couple of weeks ago t

Re: [talk-ph] On public domain data in the Philippines

2009-03-02 Thread D Tucny
I don't know if it should disturb you so much :) At the end of the day, if some government data is found that is usable, you can ask if it's OK to use in OSM where the license would permit people to pretty much do what they want with the data... If they say no, then, as it stands, the data is unusa

Re: [talk-ph] Luzon Coastline

2009-03-01 Thread D Tucny
Morgan > Just checked in on this again. Its still broken. Should we escalate this to > the OSM people? I don't really know the procedure here. > > Jim > > Jim Morgan wrote, On Tuesday, February 24, 2009 09:19 AM: > > D Tucny wrote, On Tuesday, February 24, 2009 07:10 A

Re: [talk-ph] Luzon Coastline

2009-02-23 Thread D Tucny
ll keep my meddling browser out of there from now on ... > > I wasn't sure of the significance of the layer=-1 either, but as it was > already there I left it in. Feel free to change this if it doesn't look > right to you. > > Thanks for the tip about keeping coastlines d

Re: [talk-ph] Luzon Coastline

2009-02-22 Thread D Tucny
That section of coastline is now 2193 nodes, this will be too big for the 0.6 version of the API, coastline imported by the coastline import tool would typically make ways of up to 250 nodes if I recall correctly, over 2000 nodes will be a definite problem... It's an odd bit of coastline tagging th

Re: [talk-ph] Mapnik weekly rerendering

2009-02-06 Thread D Tucny
It's a bit odd really, the coastline shapefile comes from http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html afaik, but, that's showing correct coastline... I wonder what went wrong... d 2009/2/7 Mike Collinson > FYI, Mapnik rendering does not all come from the same source. Most > features are done

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

2009-01-18 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/19 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 >

Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/15 Ed Garcia > I was about to post the message below when I was pleasantly surprised to > discover that this has been addressed now and the enhancement is already on > the main map web page of OSM... > > >>> Gathering all discussions regarding resorts and how to locate them, > one thing wo

Re: [talk-ph] Ensuring data integrity (was: Re: excellent work in subic and ormoc)

2009-01-12 Thread D Tucny
his/her edits around subic/olongapo > area. > > > > cheers, > > maning > > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:34 PM, maning sambale > > wrote: > >> In the meantime, please give the respective contributors the benefit > >> of the doubt ;) > >&

Re: [talk-ph] excellent work in subic and ormoc

2009-01-11 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/12 D Tucny > 2009/1/12 maning sambale > >> Just found excellent updates in two areas: >> >> Subic/Olongapo: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.8266&lon=120.2912&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF >> >> It looks like Olongapo is pr

Re: [talk-ph] excellent work in subic and ormoc

2009-01-11 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/12 maning sambale > Just found excellent updates in two areas: > > Subic/Olongapo: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.8266&lon=120.2912&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF > > It looks like Olongapo is pretty much covered. The editor is Deck Antonio. > @ Deck are you on this list? Great work!

Re: [talk-ph] [PH-Cyberview] Fwd: Presenters needed for APRICOT 2009

2009-01-08 Thread D Tucny
I think they are looking from presentations on a different type of routing than OSM can provide :) Technology developments is an area that OSM could potentially fit into, but, as of right now, OSM in the Philippines in still working heavily on data gathering, in the next couple of years as mapping

Re: [talk-ph] Cebu tracks.

2008-12-31 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/31 D Tucny > 2008/12/31 Jim Morgan > > I don't think Yahoo is in a position to be lobbied to provide more coverage >> at the moment, and what with Jerry Yang's departure, the future of the >> company is looking unsure. I think we need to find another sourc

Re: [talk-ph] Cebu tracks.

2008-12-31 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/31 Jim Morgan > Well thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I'd already finished my tracks the > hard way by the time I read your post, so I'll have to use it next time. Doing it the 'hard way' can often be better, especially if you have multiple tracks, which is better too :) GPS devices ar

Re: [talk-ph] from ianlopez' diary: Sorry, Manila

2008-12-30 Thread D Tucny
I've had a look, there was one extra bit of riverbank and a slightly strange bit of joined riverbank... I corrected them both... The rest is looking ok... just waiting for it to rerender... d 2008/12/30 ian lopez > > > --- On *Tue, 12/30/08, Maning Sambale * wrote: > > From: Maning Sambale > S

Re: [talk-ph] Trying out Merkaartor

2008-12-20 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/20 D Tucny > > As you mentioned about Potlatch and it's snap to though, JOSM also has > snapping, yes, you can zoom in to entire screen = 1m to get around that, > but, it can be frustrating when JOSMs guide as to what will happen when you > create a node tells

Re: [talk-ph] Trying out Merkaartor

2008-12-20 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/20 Eugene Alvin Villar > Hi guys, > > After seeing someone using Merkaartor (http://www.merkaartor.org/) to edit > in OSM, I decided to give it a try last night. Before this, I've been > exclusively using Potlatch. Potlatch is a pretty good application and is > definitely the best Flash a

Re: [talk-ph] No you can't do that yet in OSM Philippines

2008-12-04 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/5 maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yesterday I was asked by a colleague to plot planned routes for a > series of trips around Mindanao complete with optimal route, length > and time of travel. How the heck do I do that? > And so I tried OSM's routing service: http://www.yournavigation

Re: [talk-ph] Using Non-copyright Images to Map

2008-12-03 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/3 maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The original source > > is > http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Discovery_bay.svg&variant=zh-hk > > Which then points to: > Source: Drawn using Inkscape mainly according to Centamap. > http://www.centamap.com/gc/home.aspx > that says: >

Re: [talk-ph] Using Non-copyright Images to Map

2008-12-03 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/3 Jim Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK, and as I've been dying to ask this question somewhere, I'm going to > flood the mailing list with an impossible two posts in the space of an hour. > > I'm assuming the maps on Wikipedia are open source. I used to live in Hong > Kong and here's an exam