Re: [talk-ph] Happy 10th Birthday OSM! Tell us your story.

2014-08-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Happy birthday! How did I start? Well, I first created an account in OSM in July 28, 2007. And I've been hooked ever since. You can all read about how I started on my blog: “OpenStreetMap Does the Philippines”, August 4, 2007 (a week after I created an account)

Re: [talk-ph] Happy 10th Birthday OSM! Tell us your story.

2014-08-10 Thread Ervin Malicdem
I have discovered OSM since August 2008 but was not seeking too much attention to it due to very limited editing tools. Got back on 2010 and saw the growth since last time I went there. Learned to use JOSM and offline editing; and realtime data upload was very attractive to me as compared to other

[talk-ph] Happy 10th Birthday OSM! Tell us your story.

2014-08-08 Thread maning sambale
Happy 10th Birthday #OpenStreetMap http://youtu.be/7sC83j6vzjo Tell us how did you start with OSM. I'll start. I discovered OSM around Jan 2006 (user# 1417) while trying to look for PH vector data I need for a research. Free geographic data in the PH back then is very limited. The idea of