Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Morgan
OK, well as everyone has an opinion on this one ... :-) Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Wednesday, May 06, 2009 08:20 PM: It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise. Do we mark out every retail

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-07 Thread Marloue Pidor
I agree! -Original Message- From: Jim Morgan [...@datalude.com] Sent: 5/7/2009 5:35:43 PM To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City) OK, well as everyone has an opinion on this one ... :-) Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On

[talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise. Do we mark out every retail store, every bank branch, every Western Union/FedEx/LBC outlet, and every company's office in OSM? My personal take is that we

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:18 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Just my take, 1. If it's on the ground it should be mapped. This is a good guideline in general but of course a line has to be drawn somewhere (pun not intended). I don't think drawing the individual stripes of

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Rally de Leon rall...@gmail.com wrote: If you have access to (data of) all locations of Jollibee, McDonalds, 7-Eleven, Ministops, Mercury Drugs and all these big companies, by all means mark them. With the exceptions of those already inside big malls (which

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Ed Garcia
Guys, just merging the thoughts on qualifying POIs ... how about, in addition to a POI having a street level entrance, we consider if the POI has prominent building signage? Some POIs may be inside a building but have very visible signage outside or in front of the building that serve as very

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Cole
My 2 Centavos on Commercial Establishments, It is nice to see them on the map but I find that the work to maintain these is going to get very difficult and a bulk load is just asking for problems. Using the Wikipedia data before I found many were out of location or just plain wrong, Thus the

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread maning sambale
Just a thought, imagine osm tokyo japan contemplating on this issue. That would be one hell of a mapping problem. hehehe But I digress, please move on ... On 5/7/09, Marloue Pidor mur...@mail2engineer.com wrote: It seems to be a good idea but most of these food chains are located in front and