Dear Lu,
Years ago, I made a similar interview to some mappers [0].
It would be nice to check (in case you interview the same people) if
they still have the same views.
:)
[0] https://epsg4253.wordpress.com/tag/osmphmapper/
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Lu Sevier lmsev...@email.wm.edu wrote:
Rally, Maning is asking about the administrative centres, and that would
mean government authorities in charge of administration. They are not meant
to represent the [geographic] center of the village which isn't something
we normally map.
As for place=village nodes, and like I wrote earlier, I
Erwin,
Confused: I thought all along that the subject about the
admin-polygon-relation's center (whatever that means). :-) That normally,
in the absence of a member 'admin_centre' node in the relation, the
name-TEXT of that administrative polygon is rendered in its geometric
center.
BUT,
6 from this list are OSM PH contributors including Maning.
http://www.s1expeditions.com/2013/09/100-philippinemappingadvocates.html
Ervin Malicdem
for Schadow1 Expeditions
a Filipino must not be a stranger to his own motherland.
http://www.s1expeditions.com
On Jul 2, 2015 2:21 PM, maning sambale
Question:
- What's the best practice for adding admin_centre nodes to the village
boundary relation? Should it be the barangay hall (amenity=townhall)
or the place=village node?
For place nodes, a good practice IMHO is putting said node (eg.
place=village)
somewhere NEAR but NOT ON
This is a nice OSM data quality overview tool: http://osm.hlidskjalf.is/
I asked the developer to add the Philippines [0]. I have a couple of
ideas on using this for remote mapping, more on that later. For an
overview of the tool, here's the post [1].
[0]
Maning,
What does it mean when there's a value on the right column under
subregion?
Does it mean there's an administrative boundary for the particular town?
http://osm.hlidskjalf.is/settlements.php?idc=1region=Rizalsub=p=town
Rally
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:05 PM, maning sambale
FYI,
This is part of the series of workshops under SIIEM in partnership
with DSWD which Eugene and Jules attended last year [0].
Anyone, interested to represent the OSM-PH community?
[0] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2014-July/005216.html
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