Mike, > The objective is to import island names as nodes, e.g. place=island, > name=xyz - i.e. just nodes not coastline ways with island name attached. Yes just island and islet node names for now.
> And is there any extra info or edits in gnet_islands_ph.zip ? Not much, I suggest you download directly from GNS serevr, the zip file is about a year old. > I know for example that the GNS coordinates are very course so names for > small islands (less than 2km across) may not be accurately placed. We can edi them further. Thanks again, please join us here @ talk-ph cheers, maning > Mike > > > > At 10:30 AM 19/09/2008, maning sambale wrote: > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Content-Disposition: inline > > > >On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Ian Haylock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I think the coastline from Manila to the part of Cavite should be ok, as > >> I've been editing this area. I noticed last year that Boracay had been > >> done, > >> as well as some of the Island to the south of Boracay. > >> > >> Spotting coastline that needs updating should be fairly easy by examining > >> the area using the slippy map, srtm coastlines usually have the horrible > >> step like appearance. > >> > >> It would be nice to add the names to the islands as they are updated, but > >> as > >> I don't know what they are, do you know of a source where I can find out ? > > > >I'm sending you a zip file containing all the island/islet names for > >the Philippines from GNS > >(http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html). Data is in public > >domain, hence, no licensing issues. I converted the data to shapefile > >years ago. This is the same data source where Mike Collinson (cc'd > >here) made the data Municipalities/Cities name import. > > > >Mike can you help us out again in importing island names this time? > > > >> Now I remember why I hated fixing the coastline before, you spend 5 minutes > >> editing, and 20 minutes waiting for the upload to finish. > > > >OSM database seems to be better now, don't you think? > > > > > >And the Philippines even getting better :) > > > >cheers, > >maning > >> Cheers, Ian > >> > >> --- On Fri, 19/9/08, maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> From: maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Correcting Philippine coastlines > >> To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > >> Date: Friday, 19 September, 2008, 7:32 AM > >> > >>> > >>> The script coast_josm.pl produces the same output, as the code used on the > >>> web page is based on the coast_josm.pl script. > >>> > >>> I think using either of the above methods would be a lot quicker than > >>> tracing all the coastline by hand, and produce a pretty accurate > >> coastline. > >>> > >>> I've uploaded the data for the island, here's a link to the area : > >>> > >>> > >> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=19.318031414701732&lon=121.45548518653908&zoom=12&layers=B000F000F > >> > >> Calayan Island! Home of the endemic newly discovered bird Calayan > >> Rail. Yeah that looks nice. Please update as many islands as you > >> can. We just need to be careful with > >> uploading large areas. We might > >> break into other contributor's work. AFAIK, metro manila coast has > >> been edited already from Yahoo!, so the PGS would be useless there, as > >> well as in Davao. > >> > >> cheers, > >> maning > >> > >>> I'll delete the original coastline, and fix the new one when > >> you've had a > >>> look. > >>> > >>> Cheers, Ian > >>> > >>> --- On Fri, 19/9/08, maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> From: maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Correcting Philippine coastlines > >>> To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > >>> Date: Friday, 19 September, 2008, 2:09 AM > >>> > >>> Thanks for the lakewalker tip! I didn't get it to work before, but > >>> now it's working quite fine for the lakes I'm currently processing > >>> > >>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Ian Haylock > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >> also just remembered when I was fixing the coastlines last year, > >> some > >>> of > >>>> it was much better quality than the srtm coastline as it used the > >> Almien > >>>> Coastlines script. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Almien_coastlines_(PGS)#Identifying_coastline_data > >>>> > >>>> I was hoping someone would finish uploading all the coastline. > >> Don't > >>> know if > >>>> the reason it hasn't been, is because the data doesn't cover > >> the > >>> whole of > >>>> the Philippines . > >>> It actually has complete coverage for the Philippines, give a few > >>> incomplete segments. If we want to continue importing them, we need > >>> to inventory which areas of the SRTM coastline are already edited in > >>> detail. From experience, the PGS coastline has a couple of errors and > >>> manual edits are still needed. The source of the PGS coastline by the > >>> way > >> is also Landsat images. > >>> > >>> Feel free to > >>> test import in some area and lets see how it goes in > >>> terms of efficient workflow and effort. > >>> > >>> > >>> cheers, > >>> maning > >>> > >>> > >>>> Cheers, Ian > >>>> > >>>> --- On Thu, 18/9/08, maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> From: maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> Subject: [talk-ph] Correcting Philippine coastlines > >>>> To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > >>>> Date: Thursday, 18 September, 2008, 2:05 AM > >>>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I am documenting my progress in editing island coastlines. 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