Re: [talk-ph] OSM Vacation Offer

2009-02-19 Thread maning sambale
Just a request to the would be Bounty Mapper in Boracay: Please make a brief write-up on how you did it. This would be a good case study for other orgs/company wanting specific areas included in OSM. Good luck and enjoy! On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Mike Collinson wrote: > At 02:18 PM 19/02

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Vacation Offer

2009-02-19 Thread Mike Collinson
At 02:18 PM 19/02/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >I'll do some research to get a rough estimate on how long it will likely take >to map the whole of Boracay so we'll know what travel package to get (3D 2N? >or 4D 3N?). I remember it taking me about an hour to walk the whole stretch of >White B

[talk-ph] OSM Vacation Offer + OpenStreetMap.org.ph Stats

2009-02-19 Thread Ahmed Farooq
Bah bids :) Our entire purpose was to 1) Ideally work within the existing OSM community and 2) Use it as a good example of open source working with a commercial example. Yesterday was the advocacy website's highest traffic day - 64 uniques (ignoring the day when we sent out the TopBlogs.com.ph mas

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Vacation Offer

2009-02-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I ran this idea among some of my non-OSM friends and acquaintances and they seem interested ("tempting" is the word). A travel-photoblogger expressed a concern that P25K might not be enough if you really wanted to create a Boracay directory (complete with pictures, contact info, coordinates, etc.

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Vacation Offer

2009-02-19 Thread maning sambale
Let the bids begin ... On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner wrote: > Hi, > > Got an offer here I think would be hard to resist, summer is coming and > Boracay is a hot spot, we own Boracay.com.ph and have decided to develop > it to its full potential, essentially we would like B

[talk-ph] OSM Vacation Offer

2009-02-19 Thread Andre Marcelo-Tanner
Hi, Got an offer here I think would be hard to resist, summer is coming and Boracay is a hot spot, we own Boracay.com.ph and have decided to develop it to its full potential, essentially we would like Boracay mapped. It's a great cross over for both commercial and open source purposes. So, we